Texas governor, Greg Abbott, issued a statement to the Texas House of Representatives on February 22, 2022 calling for medical licensed professionals, teachers, and the public, to report any use of gender affirmation care that a child may be on. These reports would be investigated and if it is found that a child is on any kind of gender affirmation care, i.e. puberty suppressants, hormones, etc., then this would be deemed as child abuse. The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, also issued a statement that details some of the procedures that would be deemed as child abuse and why. I wanted to take a moment to outline some of the statements made in these letters, primarily the one from Paxton, and discuss what is wrong with these claims. I also wanted to address my personal feelings on this matter as recently I have been a bit quiet regarding my state of mind with these, what I see as attacks, on the transgender community.
GHASTLY proposed policy change in Texas!!!