The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit in Texas to prevent government officials from investigating parents for child abuse if they seek medical treatment for their transgender children.
Last week Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, responding to a memo from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, ordered the state's Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to launch these investigations. Paxton argued in his memo that any sort of medical treatment of a trans minor constituted child abuse because some treatments may interfere with the child's ability to reproduce.
