A 16-year trans boy tried to kill himself after investigations of families ordered. (TX)

[Nevilledog]

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NEW from @eklib: A 16-year trans boy tried to kill himself after investigations of families ordered. He was admitted to psych facility. When staff learned he was undergoing hormone therapy, they turned his family in for child abuse https://texastribune.org/2022/06/08/transgender-texas-child-abuse-lawsuit/… #txlege #tx2022

Ashley (middle) chants, "God made trans kids! God loves trans kids!" with her children during a protest at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2022.
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More families of trans teens sue to stop Texas child abuse investigat…
The ACLU and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit on behalf of three families currently under investigation, as well as more than 600 Texas-based members of PFLAG, an advocacy group for LGBTQ+ families.
3:13 PM · Jun 8, 2022

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/08/transgender-texas-child-abuse-lawsuit/

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Now, the ACLU and Lambda Legal have brought this new suit on behalf of three specific families and PFLAG, arguing that “every one of PFLAG’s Texas members with a transgender child, or those with children still learning who they are, is at substantial risk of harm.”

“For nearly 50 years, PFLAG parents have united against government efforts to harm their LGBTQ+ kids,” said Brian K. Bond, executive director of PFLAG National. “By going after trans kids and their families, Gov. Abbott has picked a fight with thousands of families in Texas and across the country who are united as members of PFLAG National.”

According to the lawsuit, a 16-year-old transgender boy tried to kill himself the same day that Abbott issued the child abuse directive.

“[He] said that the political environment, including Abbott’s Letter, and being misgendered at school, led him to take these actions,” the lawsuit said.

He survived the attempt and was admitted to an outpatient psychiatric facility, where staff learned that he was undergoing hormone therapy. A week after he was discharged, an investigator from DFPS visited the family’s home and, according to the lawsuit, said that the psychiatric facility had reported the family for child abuse. The family remains under investigation.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This poor young person is a Pawn to be used by Greg Avvott and Ken Paxton to get more votes

Greg is attacking trans youth as a stunt to get more votes from his bigoted base

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The government of Texas is seemingly at war with trans children. In 2021, the Texas Legislature saw more than 40 proposed bills that pushed anti-trans rhetoric, the most in the country. This included a bill signed into law by Governor Abbott that restricted trans youth from participating in school sports. The latest attack on trans children came in February, right before early voting started in the Republican primaries on March 1.

In February 2022, Governor Greg Abbott penned a letter instructing Texas state agencies to begin investigating parents who allow their children to receive gender-affirming care for charges of child abuse. The governor also announced that “doctors, nurses, and teachers” as well as “members of the general public” would be required to report children who “may be subject to such abuse.” This directive essentially turns the Texas public into a vigilante force against trans children and their families, creating unsafe spaces for a group that already faces significant threat from their communities and peers.

How vile does one have to be to harm children? It is genuinely evil to cause parents to fear losing their child purely because they desire necessary medical treatment for their kid, and even more so to force children to fear being taken away from their parents. It is simply nauseating to watch an elected official, who has been tasked with the protection of the people of this state, attack trans youth, one of Texas’s most vulnerable groups.

Despite claims of “protecting our children,” it is clear that this new directive would do the exact opposite. In 2021, the Trevor Project reported that more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. In fact, according to the CDC, the rate of suicide attempt for transgender youth is around three times higher than the rate among cisgender youth. Access to gender-affirming care, such as the pubertal suppression treatment that Abbott’s directive is labeling child abuse, has been proven to significantly lower the odds of suicidal ideation.

[scarletlib]

6. Coming soon to a state called Florida if DeSantis wins re-election.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

12. I suspect it's coming by the end of the month

Why would he wait for re-election? Besides, the QOP's response to Pride Month has been to ratchet up the cruelty and bigotry to 56 (after it was around 38 for most of the year.)

DeSatan probably hates what Texbekistan is doing for only one reason.. "Damn! Why didn't I think of that first?!"

[lostnfound]

9. The party of perverts always has a right to KNOW and to JUDGE

It’s their most valued right. They must know why a boy is becoming a girl or a girl is becoming a boy — maybe they were born with intersex genitalia, maybe they are not XX or XY or maybe their genes are both x and y, maybe they have androgen insensitivity syndrome. Or maybe there are other factors. It’s Greg Abbott’s god-given right to sit in judgment. He is an expert on brain biology and gender.

The arrogance of thinking they are fit to judge others is nauseating.

[Hekate]

2. Grotesquely, obscenely, vile

[EndlessWire]

3. This is sickening.

It will cause parents to have to withhold care from their child out of fear of losing custody. Losing custody would be the ultimate horror.

There has to be a special place in hell for Abbott. Let him join the gallery of scoundrels that must occupy that spot, without any hope of redemption. He can NEVER make amends for this.

He is despicable, and anyone who supports this law is also unclean. Forcing health care workers to report such information, against HIPAA mandates, is really shortsighted. Why? Because there will be a drain of medical workers due to the fact that most don't see this care as child abuse, and they won't want to inflict pain and suffering on some poor patients and their families.

Where did this Abbott guy come from? He is hideous and vile. Why did Texas feel that they had to have a guy like this in office?

This an attack on the gay community, but Abbott is kicking kids in the teeth. What a coward!

[Duppers]

4. Terrible.

😔

[vercetti2021]

5. I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD

I HOPE ABBOTT, PAXTON, AND EVERY TEXAS REPUBLICAN SUFFERS A FUCKING DEMISE SO PAINFUL THEY FIND NO FUCKING RELIEF IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT! ROT IN HELL YOU FASCIST FUCKS!

[sir pball]

7. Why are y'all so surprised? This is exactly what Abbot and DeSantis want.

If a child doesn't fit into their heteronormative worldview, they want that child dead.

It's hardly calculus.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

11. Exactly what they want

Exactly what I've been trying to say all year here, in response to this shit. Legislate and "conversion therapy" them into being cisgender and heterosexual. If that doesn't work? Get them killed - either at the hands of UltraMAGA, or their own.

Had this trans boy ended up killing himself, it would've brought joy to that sick fucking fascist Abbutt.

[NCLefty]

8. Republican mission: accomplished.

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[IngridsLittleAngel]

10. PARTY OF FAMILY VALUES MY ASS!

That worthless waste of space Abbutt along with his pack of Texas Nazis have spent 2022 trying to destroy the families of trans teens, and destroy trans lives. Guess what? He almost got one! HIS fucking actions and HIS fucking hatred drove a trans teen to his breaking point and he attempted suicide over it. Over 40% of us as it is attempt suicide - over struggles with our own feelings, over the fight to get healthcare, over being disowned and dehumanized, over being deadnamed and misgendered, over being bullied and abused... AND SOME GODDAMNED THUG IN TEXAS SEES 40% AND WANTS MORE!

"He said that the political environment, including Abbott’s Letter, and being misgendered at school, led him to take these actions" YOU NEARLY HAD BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS, ABBUTT! But why not? That's the whole point of this! Broken families and death - either at the hands of your cult, or by suicide! I am sure the only thing that bothers you is this teen SURVIVED!

You fucking Nazi bastards go on about being the party of family values while you DESTROY our families and our lives! First it was blocking or breaking up same-sex marriages, or stopping same-sex couples from adopting.. Now you are trying to rip families to shreds because of having a transgender child! SMALL GOVERNMENT FOR LEAVE IT TO BEAVER FAMILIES, GIGANTIC GOVERNMENT FOR LGBTQ FAMILIES, right?! FUCK YOU!

You fucking Nazi bastards go on about "fighting to protect children" while you TERRORIZE children like this and don't lift a fucking finger over school shootings! Five fucking months of bullying and abusing and terrorizing the trans community, five seconds (if that) in response to a massacre in Uvalde! We hurt no one being our true selves! We hurt no one trying to live our lives in peace! We aren't the ones turning schools into shooting galleries! FUCK YOU!

And this psychiatric facility... Fuck you. Seriously... FUCK YOU! Proof that most of these programs do not exist to improve people's well-being or help them. They exist to bully people who need help and to program them into "normalcy." How can I say that? If those fuckers cared, the last thing they would've done was to turn this boy's family in... and by doing so, do the very thing that caused him to attempt suicide to begin with! You think you're "helping" this boy by turning him into the very gestapo that drove him to this point in the first place?! FUCK YOU!

Sue Texass into bankruptcy. File charges of child abuse against Abbutt, Paxton, the school, all of them!

I hate the tree that fell on Abbutt. I do. If you were a good tree, you would've squashed him like the insect he is, leaving only a smear on the sidewalk. The world would've been a better place without one less Nazi thug.