.HayesBrown: The party of “family values” now wants to see otherwise loving families destroyed in a warped attempt to “save” them.
on Tuesday that insists “there are two genders, and to deny that is to deny science.” If enacted, it would effectively nationalize Abbott and Paxton’s view of trans minors and erase trans people from public life. The party of “family values” now wants to see otherwise loving families destroyed in a warped attempt to “save” them.
The attorney general’s opinion is likely to be challenged in court, but it could become entrenched if such a lawsuit is heard by a likeminded judge who is equally willing to disregard the needs of trans youths. There is the chance, though, that a federal judge could, as a federal judge in Arkansas did after lawmakers there banned gender-affirming care for minors.
But until that happens, if it happens at all, there are likely teachers and nurses and doctors who agree with Abbott and Paxton and will gladly use the governor’s order as an excuse to turn the power of the state against children they dislike. As long as this is the state of play in Texas, parents of trans children will wake up every day wondering if it’s the day that investigators turn up at their door.
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