AUSTIN, Texas — Confusion and secrecy marked the rollout of the state’s decision to investigate some parents of transgender children for abuse, newly released records show.
Immediately after the directive was rolled out in late February, staff at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services directed employees not to put anything about the controversial change in writing and urged them not to discuss it on social media.
In agency emails from Feb. 22 to March 7 that The Dallas Morning News recently obtained through a public records request, supervisors said the policy change came from the top brass and said only “high performing” employees would be tasked with handling these “special cases.”
