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Investigating parents of transgender youth has agency on ‘brink of collapse,’ staff warns

AUSTIN, Texas — Continuing to investigate the parents of transgender youth could put Texas’ child protection agency over the brink of collapse, a group of its staffers said in a new court filing.

Tribune News Service

Texas’ child welfare agency told staffers to keep quiet about gender-affirming care investigations, documents show

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services leaders instructed employees to avoid written communications about the cases and barred low-level employees from handling the investigations, according to internal agency communications.

The Texas Tribune

Ken Paxton again tries to intervene in suit with Dallas hospital over transgender care

DALLAS — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is attempting for the second time to intervene in a legal fight over gender-affirming medical care at two Dallas hospitals.

Tribune News Service

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Confusion, secrecy marked rollout of Texas abuse investigations into transgender kids

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.

Tribune News Service

Texas child welfare agency fires employee for encouraging a foster child to consider sex work

A spokesperson told The Texas Tribune that all employees are trained before supervising youth. DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters apologized to the child and her mother.

The Texas Tribune

Head of embattled Texas child abuse investigations resigns after less than a year

During Robert “Rich” Richman’s short tenure, he oversaw the investigation of parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children and the mishandling of allegations of sex abuse at a foster care facility.

The Texas Tribune

Immigrant Moms Get Rare Win in Long-fought Family Detention Case

The state Supreme Court weighed in on a fight to stop the state from licensing detention centers as childcare facilities.

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Will Tonight's Capitol Riot Hearing Deliver Bombshells or Be Another Dud?

Plus: Families sue over Texas directive on care for transgender kids, teleworker taxes will come before Ohio Supreme Court, and more...

Reason

Families of trans children file new lawsuit against Texas child abuse policy

AUSTIN, Texas — Three more families with transgender children are suing to block abuse investigations the state has opened against them, adding to the litigation Texas faces after deeming certain gender-affirming medical treatments child abuse earlier this year.

Tribune News Service

Texas Supreme Court Throws Out Protections for Trans Youth

The decision reaffirms the state child welfare agency’s ability to investigate families who seek gender-affirming care for their kids.

Texas Observer

Texas Supreme Court says governor cannot order trans child abuse investigations

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday struck down a statewide injunction halting child abuse investigations into the parents of transgender youth, while keeping in place a block on the case of one family who sued the state.

Tribune News Service

Child welfare workers protest bigotry

Agency "losing so many tenured staff and wisdom because this job is just not manageable anymore," a supervisor said

Salon

Texas anti-trans law risks kids' lives

I'm a Texas doctor who provides gender-affirming care. The GOP's ban will tear families apart — and cost lives

Salon

Judge considers blocking Texas policy of investigating medical care for trans children as ‘child abuse’

The new policy has ‘caused terror and anxiety among transgender youth and their families across the Lone Star State,’ says the American Civil Liberties Union

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Texas Sued As State Starts Investigating Parents of Trans Children for 'Child Abuse'

ACLU: “The agency’s new rule substitutes parents’ judgment as to what medical care is in the best interests of their children for the judgment of the government.”

Tribune News Service

Paxton legal opinion on transgender youth uses misleading citations, 'shocking' parallels

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Texas attorney general's recent legal opinion that called transgender health care for minors "child abuse" cited sources in a misleading way and drew parallels that researchers say simply do not exist, according to an analysis by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

The Guardian - US

Lawsuit aims to stop Texas investigating parents seeking care for trans children

Lawsuit filed after state’s governor and attorney general called medically necessary gender-affirming care ‘child abuse’

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