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Lawsuit: Texas investigating parents of transgender youth
The Associated Press ^ | March 1, 2022 | By ANDREW DeMILLO

Posted on 03/01/2022 2:11:53 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.

The parents of the 16-year-old girl are asking a judge to block the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from investigating them and the parents of other transgender youth under a directive Abbott issued last month.

The lawsuit marks the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s order and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton labeling certain gender-confirming treatments as “child abuse.”

The lawsuit doesn’t name the parents, but said the mother works at DFPS on the review of reports of abuse and neglect. The day of Abbott’s order, she asked her supervisor how it would affect the agency’s policy, according to the lawsuit.

Abbott’s directive and the attorney general’s opinion go against the nation’s largest medical groups, including the American Medical Association, which have opposed Republican-backed restrictions filed in statehouses nationwide.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: againstgodswill; badmedicine; childabuse; democrats; homosexualagenda; malpractice; perverts; unnatural
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1 posted on 03/01/2022 2:11:53 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“gender-confirming care”

Positively Orwellian.

2 posted on 03/01/2022 2:15:16 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The parents of the 16-year-old girl are asking a ....

I can't trust reporting.

Was the child really a girl or is this an article not accepting science?

3 posted on 03/01/2022 2:15:50 PM PST by Tai_Chung
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"I can't trust reporting. Was the child really a girl or is this an article not accepting science?"

It's from the AP: assume penis

4 posted on 03/01/2022 2:17:47 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This excerpt does not make any sense.


5 posted on 03/01/2022 2:18:06 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The reporter plays the Artful Dodger and never actually tells us who believes what? Are the parents pushing their child to take gender comfirming drugs or are they trying to prevent it?
A simple statement either way would have cleared this lingering cloud up in one second.

I’m just guessing the parents ARE ‘encouraging’ their child to take these drugs, because they think it’s what she wants.
If Mom is a Social Wrkr, she is surrounded by such advocates every day.


6 posted on 03/01/2022 2:21:41 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ifinnegan
Translation:

A. Texas passed a law to protect kids by forbidding parents and doctors from doing the gender confused brainwashing thing.
B. The parents of a boy who thinks he's a girl is suing Texas over it.
C. The boy's mother works for Texas' DFPS (Dept of Family and Protective Services). That, to me, is the scariest part of the story. Someone who plays along with the gender confused brainwashing stuff is in the position to take kids away from good parents if the parents disagree with her line of thinking.

7 posted on 03/01/2022 2:24:39 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I clicked the link and read the article. The child is a biological boy who is taking puberty blockers.


8 posted on 03/01/2022 2:25:44 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: lee martell

I got an ad for ‘puberty blockers” on Youtube yesterday. Big Pharma is pushing this insanity to bolster their already disgusting bottom line.


9 posted on 03/01/2022 2:26:33 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: ifinnegan

Neither does “gender-confirming care for kids”.


10 posted on 03/01/2022 2:26:57 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look into this family and you’ll find at least one pedophile. That’s why they’re fighting the investigation.


11 posted on 03/01/2022 2:28:58 PM PST by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: VTenigma

It must be very easy to obtain them. Sometimes what one does to their hormones cannot be undone. Blood pressure problems, headaches, tummy troubles, mood swings may be there to stay for a while.


12 posted on 03/01/2022 2:30:24 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Tell It Right

Thanks. Clearer.

But, Abbott did what?

The article makes it sounds 180 degrees opposite what it seems to be.

It seems Abbott is coming down on a family who want to force their child to not be transgender.

It seems Abbott is against parental rights.

The way it’s reported.


13 posted on 03/01/2022 2:30:38 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lee martell

It’s child abuse and insanity. These are the same people that “insist” we protect the environment at all cost, ironic.


14 posted on 03/01/2022 2:34:21 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: VTenigma

“I got an ad for ‘puberty blockers” on Youtube yesterday. “

GET AN AD BLOCKER ASAP.

Noone can trust youtube. Dangers: Folks will let their grandkids watch an old video or cartoon and youtube will interrupt with perverse ads.


15 posted on 03/01/2022 2:39:43 PM PST by George from New England
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

it is child abuse pure and simple to sexually mutilate these poor mentally ill children.


16 posted on 03/01/2022 2:40:29 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ifinnegan

First of all, it’s called “gender affirming” care and it means allowing the use of drugs, surgery, or counseling to assist in affirming the gender dysphoria of children believing themselves to be the opposite gender to which they were born and have the genitalia to prove it. It is unclear if Abbott’s directive applies to investigation of parents seeking medical intervention to affirm that (for example) their child born as a girl is NOT a boy or vice versa.


17 posted on 03/01/2022 2:46:57 PM PST by torqemada (BIDEN IS NOT MY PRESIDENT #RESIST)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“gender confirming care for kids”=cutting a little boys d*ck off


18 posted on 03/01/2022 2:48:34 PM PST by Pxzftrnqfrn
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To: Tell It Right

I agree. This kid is sixteen now, and being an extreme tomboy myself when I was a little girl and even into my teen years, I always thought, “It’d be so much easier to be a boy.” Granted, I never thought of myself as one, because I knew it was asinine, but if I were a young girl now, I’d be pressured into transgenderism. I know it.

By 14, when I had my first serious boyfriend, I got over it. The same probably would have held true for this kid.


19 posted on 03/01/2022 2:51:45 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: lee martell

There are women on YouTube who have de-transitioned and their voices will remain forever deep.

These are young women who took testosterone while “transitioning” to male.


20 posted on 03/01/2022 3:00:49 PM PST by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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