Parents of trans children sue Texas to stop child-abuse investigations

Source: Washington Post

Parents of trans children sue Texas to stop child-abuse investigations

By María Luisa Paúl
June 9, 2022 at 7:12 a.m. EDT

In a new lawsuit, a Texas mother said her 16-year-old son attempted suicide in February after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) directed state agencies to investigate the use of gender-affirming care as child abuse.

Another family said they were forced to install security cameras outside their home after being heckled incessantly when the new directive was announced.

The families are among at least nine being probed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services for providing their transgender children with certain medical treatments. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, three of the families describe what they say is a constant fear of being separated from their children for providing them with medically advised gender-affirming treatments.

The suit, filed in a Texas district court by advocacy groups Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union, not only seeks to block the investigations into the three families named in it, but also to protect anyone affiliated with the LGBTQ advocacy group Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) — which has about 600 members in Texas — from similar probes.

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