Texas Department of Family and Protective Services leaders instructed employees to avoid written communications about the cases and barred low-level employees from handling the investigations, according to internal agency communications.
classifying such care as child abuse. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy slammed the directive, calling out the state for inserting itself between doctors and patients.from investigating two families for providing gender-affirming care to their children. Meachum will decide whether to block child abuse investigations over gender-affirming care for all Texas families at a Dec. 5 trial.
“Staff need to be clear that as state employees their public/social media opinions must be neutral to non-existent,” Martin Lopez, a supervisor at DFPS, wrote in reference to Abbott’s directive. Supervisors were told to notify higher-ups if they received a case pertaining to Abbott’s directive so that they could staff the cases.Several employees have told the Tribune they were directed to mark cases under Abbott’s directive as sensitive, a rare designation usually reserved for cases in which DFPS employees are personally involved.
“We have trans workers here at DFPS, what kind of message are we sending to them?” Santiago wrote in one email.
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