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Families of trans kids sue Texas over investigations against them
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Three families of transgender children in Texas filed a lawsuit seeking to block state investigations into them for alleged child abuse.
- One woman said her 16-year-old son attempted to commit suicide after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered investigations against anyone helping a minor in gender-affirming care.
- The new lawsuit was filed on behalf of the families of three boys who have been receiving hormone therapy.
Three families filed a lawsuit against Texas on Wednesday seeking to block investigations against them for gender-affirming medical care their trans children have received. The state is considering this type of treatment as child abuse.
The lawsuit also seeks to block the state from opening any similar investigations against any Texas members of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG Inc.
Last month, the Texas Supreme Court allowed the state to probe parents of transgender youth for child abuse following an order by Gov. Greg Abbott.
The new lawsuit, filed by Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union, seeks a new broad order against the investigations.
“If it takes a court ruling to ensure that the law protects families who lead with love in support of transgender Texans, so be it.” Brian K. Bond, executive director of PFLAG National, said in a statement.
In February, Abbott directed child welfare officials to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.
The order was put on hold in March by a judge after a lawsuit brought on behalf of a 16-year-old girl whose family said it was under investigation. In May, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the lower court overstepped its authority by blocking all investigations moving forward.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Service has said it opened nine investigations following the directive and opinion.
American Medical Association, one of the country’s largest medical groups, is against Abbott’s order and the attorney general’s opinion. It has opposed GOP-backed restrictions filed in statehouses across the country.
The new lawsuit was filed on behalf of the families of three boys — two 16-year-olds and a 14-year-old — who have been getting hormone therapy. The families talked about the anxiety they’ve faced due to the investigations.
One of the teens’ mother said her son attempted suicide and was hospitalized the day Abbott issued his directive. The mother said in a court filing that the outpatient psychiatric facility where her son was referred reported the family for child abuse after learning he had been prescribed hormone therapy.
“I am offended and hurt that my state government wants to make it unlawful for trans youth like me to be ourselves, and that DFPS, the governor and the attorney general are willing to persecute families like mine simply for loving and supporting their trans children,” another teens said in the court filing.
Source: ABC News
Mike Tracy
June 11, 2022 at 8:07 am
The same type of families bring their underaged children to drag queen strip shows in Texas. The children of those parents should be removed from their sick parents’ custody and put in foster homes that can provide a more responsible environment. Children grow up to be products of their environment. It should be illegal for gay people or any LGBTQ people to raise children. No child should be exposed to that sort of sick environment until they are old enough to make responsible decisions on their own. For LGBTQ parents to raise children is child abuse! It’s sick!
Everett
June 12, 2022 at 6:43 pm
You’re 120% correct. These “parents” are as sick as our pedo-pres Obiden, and the rest of their evil party of dems.
Sheila
June 12, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Unbelievable. Sick parents. There’s no such thing as a transchild period. It’s a child with parents who both DESPERATELY NEED PSYCHOLOGICAL counseling.
tj
June 17, 2022 at 8:02 am
Sheila, I can agree with SOME of your thinking that being there are Pshychological problems with the child and or parents , but cannot accept removing child. There have been many confused children raised from (Society) normal families as from LBGTQ families , what is the answer I wish I had that answer but removal of child only creates more problems (psychological and emotional). The quote that I blame to is ” The philosophy of one generation becomes the political theme to the next”
Concerned Citizen
June 12, 2022 at 9:16 pm
It would be helpful to know if the “parents” of the children undergoing sex-change are natural parents or if they adopted the child/ren… and if the “parents” are natural male and female… or if the “parents” are lesbians or homosexuals.
Mike Tracy
June 11, 2022 at 8:09 am
Keep up the good work, Governor Abbott!
Mike Tracy
June 11, 2022 at 9:35 am
Keep up the good work, Governor DeSantis!
Mike Tracy
June 11, 2022 at 9:43 am
This country needs some responsible leadership that has some spine!
Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbot should be elected President and Vice Presdent for the next eight years. Then they should trade places for the next eight years. Possibly, with sixteen years of continuous good leadership, they could get this failing country back on track!
Tony
June 12, 2022 at 8:06 pm
I think that would be a great opportunity for this country to turn itself back around to have two strong politicians that are afraid to say and do what the country needs rather than a weak backbone like we have now.
David Dutra
June 12, 2022 at 2:11 am
How are some of these trans parents going to feel when the day comes that the first parents of thanks kids (in adulthood) blame get blamed for allowing them to make the worst decision in the history of their life at such a young age ?
IT ABSOLUTELY US ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME UNTIL THIS EXACT SENECIO COMES TO PASS… Not only will they resent the parent for the rest of their life; The parent could very well be held responsible and be sued in court and possibly arrested for child abuse !
G O O D L U C K WITH THAT!!!
mike kerrigan
June 12, 2022 at 6:56 pm
Really tired of hearing the “Woes” of the Liberal Left on LGBQ demands for tax payer gender change operations, college loan forgiveness, open boarder for illegal aliens, $25.00 an hour hamburger flippers, electric cars costing $60K with not enough charging stations to keep them running and the list goes on….
CharlieSeattle
June 12, 2022 at 8:08 pm
Lets
Get
Biden
To
Quit!
Blonde Bomb
June 14, 2022 at 12:35 am
How do we do that? The system is rigged.
tj
June 17, 2022 at 8:06 am
Mike, agree and feel your pain
Sherry
June 12, 2022 at 7:28 pm
Judgement day is coming for those parents, and they will have to stand before God and be made account able for their sins, I hear, Hell is a terrible place to spend eternity.
tj
June 17, 2022 at 8:08 am
Sheila, doubtful they know or have a God. If so their would probably blame God for this problem
CharlieSeattle
June 12, 2022 at 8:07 pm
Parents permitting it is child abuse!
Bruce Jarvis
June 12, 2022 at 8:26 pm
There is no credible evidence to support parents doing this to children. Children develop their identity over time and any thing that disrupts this creates terrible results for the child. This is parents making terrible decisions for their kids. We need to know what their motivation was to do this to their kids.
Blonde Bomb
June 14, 2022 at 12:39 am
They are afraid that if they don’t “support” their child’s delusion that that child will commit suicide and they aren’t willing to live with that. Ironically, the studies show that those who have the sex change surgery are even more suicidal afterwords. (That’s because the victim wasn’t in the wrong body, but in the wrong mindset.
tj
June 17, 2022 at 8:10 am
Blonde , VERY,VERY GOOD thought thank you, have to completely agree.
Linda Trent
June 12, 2022 at 8:59 pm
Parents and kids wanting/supporting gender change should have to do 3 years of therapy by approved therapists before this gender change can even be considered.
Redrag
June 12, 2022 at 9:52 pm
These kids are told that anything that does not go the way they want it then blame the world. It is all about me, me, me! Rather than working their way through it to better themselves they are told to blame someone else. Now you know why the mass shootings have happened more.
Remember the trigger does NOT fire, the finger does. Then the brain tells the finger
Samantha
June 13, 2022 at 4:11 am
Some very good comments here.
I agree with Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis for not allowing the lunatics to run the asylum.
Could be that the parents did not get the gender they wanted so they think it a good idea to get them changed into something they are not.
Whatever reason they may have is totally ridiculous. They cannot even drive before 16, vote before 18, or drink until 21.
But the parents think they can be instrumental in changing their sex?
It is total insanity to even think of allowing such a thing, ever!
DAVID
June 13, 2022 at 6:44 am
People that allow their kids to have that operation before puberty should be arrested for child abuse and or neglect !
Patty
June 14, 2022 at 4:34 am
This lbtq and transgender crap has to stop! Let the kids be kids! Stop putting the thought in their heads that they are something they are not! Bottom line, God created them to be the gender they are, male or female, dna proves that! They don’t need to be turned into mutilated freaks! Any parent that goes along with the transgender idea should have the child removed from the home, and they should be sterilized so theycan’t Bring anymore children into the world to be tortured and mutilated. And every “ groomer should be arrested, imprisoned for life to stop this crap!
Barbara
June 15, 2022 at 2:02 pm
If the parents win the lawsuit, the children will be the ultimate losers since the children are not old enough to realize what it is they’re parents are truly advocating for. The “woke” parents are virtue signaling that they will love their children unconditionally when in truth it is the parents who are benefitting from having transgender children. This is a form of Munchhausen’s that would be challenged if it weren’t for the capitulation of the medical community. For them it is a moneymaker, for the parents a pat on the back by all the wrong people and for the children it will be a lifelong question of who and what they truly are. I saw my stepdaughter do this with my beautiful granddaughter who is not so beautiful these days. She’s not trans but gay, pushed by her mother in that direction. Her mother had her get breast reduction surgery in high school and my once svelte granddaughter looks like a linebacker these days and it’s not fat. I know she is on male hormones. I have no relationship with my stepdaughter because she knows we don’t approve of what she’s done to our granddaughter. All due to her own insecurities and her desire to show she loves her daughter in spite of…