Texas AG: Gender Affirming Care for Trans Youth is Child Abuse

[Carolyn Marie]

https://www.keranews.org/news/2022-02-22/texas-attorney-general-declares-gender-affirming-medical-care-for-transgender-kids-child-abuse

 

 

Carolyn Marie

[VickySGV]

He is one of the reasons that I wish GD was caused by something we could put in his chili and have him catch a bad dose of it. 

[Lenneth]

First, well put @VickySGV .  I like the phrasing there.  Second, my thought is summed up with a GIF.

 

 

[Lenneth]

Dag nab it.  Another thought occurred right as I hit submit on that.  I know it’s not the same thing, but that entire premise is as ridiculous to me as the people screaming about, and in some cases calling child protective services on, parents putting masks on their children because that’s somehow abusive.

 

Though my thoughts and opinions about Texas as a whole are extensive and better discussed in a different board.

[Davie]

Insane people often appear to speak sane-sounding sentences.

[Charlize]

I am so glad to live in NJ!  I'd hard to drive through Texas.  At some point you have to stop for fuel .  It's just too big.

 

Hug,

 

Charlize

[Ivy]

Less government except where they want it.

[Davie]

Not just bad news for Texas—this is pure evil:

VOTE THIS GUY OUT, PLEASE!

 

Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans children in Texas and prosecuting their parents as child abusers. He has also instructed all teachers, doctors, and caregivers to begin reporting any trans students they see.

 

[Lenneth]

7 minutes ago, Davie said:

Not just bad news for Texas—this is pure evil:

VOTE THIS GUY OUT, PLEASE!

 

Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans children in Texas and prosecuting their parents as child abusers. He has also instructed all teachers, doctors, and caregivers to begin reporting any trans students they see.

 

I apologize if this is too far and needs to be in the “Political” board.  I will keep it very brief though. 🙇🏻‍♀️
 

@Davie, while I wholeheartedly agree with the need to vote him out.  It’s Texas.  It won’t happen.  Legislation there is governed by the beliefs of a subset of people who will die imposing those beliefs on everyone else.
 

 

[Davie]

1 hour ago, Lenneth said:

@Davie, while I wholeheartedly agree with the need to vote him out.  It’s Texas.  It won’t happen.  Legislation there is governed by the beliefs of a subset of people who will die imposing those beliefs on everyone else.

Yes. I get the realities of the situation. I guess I'm praying for change . . . what could change, if Beto is elected governor.

—Davie

[Lenneth]

11 minutes ago, Davie said:

Yes. I get the realities of the situation. I guess I'm praying for change . . . what could change, if Beto is elected governor.

—Davie

Hoping and praying fir change is a valuable ray of light!  I hope you never lose it.  I am just overburdened with some things. 😪

[Davie]

9 hours ago, Lenneth said:

I am just overburdened with some things.

 

Yes. For me I hope it's all part of the process to the change that is right for me. Let those pains guide me towards a happier life.

— Davie

[Timber Wolf]

It's amazing, the callousness of these politicians. That they care so little that there decrees and actions can cause pain and suffering and death. And to children no less. 

 

Lots of love,

Timber Wolf🐾

[Ivy]

To be honest, this stuff just fills me with despair.  Of course it's not just this one man.  I'm not a kid anymore, but I still feel this personally.  Why the frick can't we (and these families) just be allowed to live our own lives in peace?

[Jackie C.]

15 minutes ago, Jandi said:

Why the frick can't we (and these families) just be allowed to live our own lives in peace?

 

When you absolutely hate yourself, you start looking for people who are beneath you, who can't fight back. You punish them to make yourself feel better. You can't do any of this out of a sense of self-love and self-worth.

 

We built the world wrong. These are the results.

 

Hugs!

[MirandaB]

Seems the primary voters might not find him 'conservative' enough, plus the whole energy scandal details coming out, better punch down on people to distract everyone. 

[VickySGV]

There are a couple of fallacies going on here that his state sees as red meat for the jackals.  The one fallacy is that care for Trans Kids is wholly experimental and is not ready for use since the positive outcomes, and thus we are experimenting on helpless children by delusional parents who are doing it for their ego's and not the good of the child. This fallacy was based on a noted medical doctor being candid that more research and education on Trans children's care  is needed, but it was aimed at untrained medical professionals, and in context of their being able to better treat their Trans patients.  The second fallacy is from a study that incorrectly concluded that 80% of children will "straighten out" and become Cis.  The study was badly flawed because the greatest number of children in it had not be diagnosed as Trans, and it assumed that children who had dropped out of the study (60%) had gone the cis way.  Third fallacy is that Trans children cannot  know they are Trans at a young age and the time worn and disproven that kids are a blank slate an the parents are responsible for "nurturing" the child into the correct gender.  Incomplete education and failure to recognize it, along with the social herd driving the politicians constituents desire.

[Jackie C.]

Yeah, I'm sure every three-year old spends their free time longing to be a girl, but in a totally cis-way.

 

That was sarcasm if it wasn't obvious. 😉

 

Hugs!

[Ivy]

Twitter is a mess, but here is a thread if anyone is inclined to go there-

 

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1496511215719399431?s=20

[stveee]

This is bad for business in Texas. I expect Corporations will eventually speak out against it. They are the ones with all the money, anyway.

 

 

[Carolyn Marie]

There is no downside for Abbot.  If this stands, he can claim hero status with his base for "protecting" young people.  If a court rules against him, he can claim hero status with his base for fighting the good fight, and blaming the "woke" judiciary.  As long as Texas remains a right wing stronghold, he has little to worry about.

 

Carolyn Marie

[Lenneth]

4 hours ago, Carolyn Marie said:

There is no downside for Abbot.  If this stands, he can claim hero status with his base for "protecting" young people.  If a court rules against him, he can claim hero status with his base for fighting the good fight, and blaming the "woke" judiciary.  As long as Texas remains a right wing stronghold, he has little to worry about.

 

Carolyn Marie

The strategy here is the same as DeSantis in FL with lawsuits against schools and districts that refused to cow tow to his demands on banning mask mandates or actively preventing adherence to a single thing the CDC ever said.  These are positions specifically adopted knowing they will be challenged and ultimately fail in court.  They win in every way.  
 

- Not responsible for legal fees

- Base is happy core issue is being “righteously fought” to protect “true values”

- Subset of the population perceived as “wrong,” “unwholesome,” or “morally bankrupt” is “justifiably harassed.”  AKA, life made harder for the people we don’t like

- Failure is seen as the evil liberals and eroding values of the corrupt, liberal establishment crushing “good, wholesome protection” of those wonderfully “true values,” and thus not the politician’s fault

- Owes nothing, lost nothing of value, lost case sky rockets approval with base astronomically, and more fodder for future stump speeches, ads, or political hit jobs during election years

 

 

😪🤦🏻‍♀️😠😤😒🎹🚶🏻‍♀️😭

[Ivy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/texas-child-abuse-trans-youth.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

Here we go.

 

"Texas Investigating Over Medical Treatments for Trans Youth, Lawsuit Says

The investigations by the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services started last week with an employee of the agency, according to the suit, after Gov. Greg Abbott called for such inquiries."

 

"Among the first to be investigated was an employee of the state protective services agency who has a 16-year-old transgender child. On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and Lambda Legal went to state court in Austin to try to stop the inquiry.

The employee, who was not named in the court filing, works on the review of reports of abuse and neglect. She was placed on administrative leave last week, according to the filing, and on Friday was visited by an investigator from the agency, which is also seeking medical records related to her child. The family of the child, identified in court documents only as Mary Doe, has refused to voluntarily turn over the records."

[Lenneth]

1 hour ago, Jandi said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/texas-child-abuse-trans-youth.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

Here we go.

 

"Texas Investigating Over Medical Treatments for Trans Youth, Lawsuit Says

The investigations by the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services started last week with an employee of the agency, according to the suit, after Gov. Greg Abbott called for such inquiries."

 

"Among the first to be investigated was an employee of the state protective services agency who has a 16-year-old transgender child. On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and Lambda Legal went to state court in Austin to try to stop the inquiry.

The employee, who was not named in the court filing, works on the review of reports of abuse and neglect. She was placed on administrative leave last week, according to the filing, and on Friday was visited by an investigator from the agency, which is also seeking medical records related to her child. The family of the child, identified in court documents only as Mary Doe, has refused to voluntarily turn over the records."

 

 

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/no-2.gif

 

 

 

 

 

[Lenneth]

Corrected.