'No family should have to fear being torn apart because they are supporting their trans child.' ACLUTx
"No family should have to fear being torn apart because they are supporting their trans child,"Adri Pérez, policy and advocacy strategist at the ACLU of Texas."A week before an election, Gov. Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a partisan political attack that isn't rooted in the needs of families, the evidence from doctors, and the expertise from child welfare professionals.
At least two county attorneys have said they won't prosecute any families referred by DFPS, but a woman who works for the department is now being investigated after disclosing to her supervisor that her daughter is receiving medically necessary gender-affirming care.Jane Doe, the mother of a trans child, Mary, is herself a DFPS employee, according to the filing.
With Abbott and Paxton both facing elections this year amid a nationwide right-wing campaign attacking the rights of transgender children—despite evidence that the general publicblatantly using vulnerable young people in Texas as political pawns.
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