Texas governor calls on citizens to report parents of transgender kids for abuse

[ripcord]

Source: NBC News

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling on “licensed professionals” and “members of the general public” to report the parents of transgender minors to state authorities if it appears the minors are receiving gender-affirming medical care.

The directive was part of a letter Abbott, a Republican, sent Tuesday to the Department of Family and Protective Services, calling on it to “conduct a prompt and thorough investigation” of any reported instances of minors undergoing “elective procedures for gender transitioning.”

Abbott’s letter follows an opinion released Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, which stated that allowing minors to receive transition care such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery is child abuse under state law.

Paxton issued the opinion after the Legislature failed last year to pass a bill that would have made it a felony alongside physical and sexual abuse to provide such care to minors. An opinion is an interpretation of existing law; it does not change the law itself but can affect how it is enforced.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-governor-calls-citizens-report-parents-transgender-kids-abuse-rcna17455

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Sometimes the bullshit seems overwhelming.

[bahboo]

1. again...cruelty is the point with these assholes....

[vercetti2021]

2. Go throw yourself down a flight of stairs

Do us all a fucking favor Gov Hotwheels!

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. Abbott is trying to out satan FL gov deSatan.

[Deuxcents]

11. No worries

The Florida Gov will be up all night thinking of how to one up the Texas Gov.

[Hekate]

4. Spy on your neighbors and your family, Citizens of Texas. Every autocrat since time began...

… will applaud your public-spiritedness.

[LonePirate]

5. A tweet today said the US would classify this as a human rights violation if TX was another country.

I'm not expecting a similar condemnation given how the Biden administration hasn't been on the offensive over Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill.

[Ray Bruns]

38. Not to nitpick, I think the Biden administration has it's hands full at the moment.

[PatrickforB]

6. This is some powerful white male evangelical christian hate.

And here we thought they would address real issues like reforming the power grid!

Silly us.

[Solly Mack]

7. Cruelty, malice, bigotry.

[captain queeg]

8. Glad they have the proper focus, wouldn't want to waste time on the power grid.

The power grid would be an appropriate governmental function, not going after kids.

[sakabatou]

9. WTAF?!

[lonely bird]

10. Small government...

Or not.

[area51]

12. F Greg Abbott.

[trof]

13. TX repugs are just insane.

Batshit, doubledy fuckbutt nuts.

[Honest Hypocrisy]

14. At this point...

Texas politics has become so hate-driven, I'm surprised they still allow a disabled candidate on the ballot.

[CaptainTruth]

15. We either take to the streets & stop this...

...or we just sit at home & let it happen.

It's our choice...

[txwhitedove]

16. Primary for TX Governor is right now. I earl voted yesterday for Beto. VOTE!

[Ilsa]

17. He should be charged with practicing medicine without a license. nt

[Lonestarblue]

18. This could well come back to bite both Paxton and Abbott.

They’ve both been vocal about getting the government out of people’s lives and then turn around and say that teachers and others need to snitch to the government about parents of transgender kids so they can be brought up on charges of child abuse. Even taking a child for counseling if it affirms the child’s sexual feelings would be considered child abuse. Most parents will tell then to go take a hike. The government has no business trying to torment transgender kids or their parents.

Between this and the abortion ban, Republicans are telling people, women especially, that the government will not only to make their reproductive choices for them but also will decide how they are to raise their kids.

[orleans]

20. (you put this in far nicer and more civilized terms than i did) (post 19) nt

[Ray Bruns]

39. They wouldn't be republicans if they weren't hypocrites.

[orleans]

19. holy shit! how absolutely fucking insane!

i thought all those douchewads didn't like "big government" but now they want everyone to play the part of big government and crawl around in everyone else's house--snooping and judging

bend over texans! your neighbors (and your governor) are coming in!

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

21. Question

Do Texas gun laws allow parents to shoot someone checking out or endangering their trans kid, on the grounds of self-defense/defense of family?

Asking for a friend.

[orangecrush]

31. +1

[Martin68]

22. The prohibition on invoking Nazism is obsolete. that's the only thing you can call this kind of

a certain demographic by encouraging neighbors to report them to the Gestapo - I mean police.

[Martin68]

23. Texas is leading the way to 1984. Or is it 1948?

[slightlv]

24. I agree with whomever said cruelty is the point.

[JudyM]

25. Family values

Way to support more family cohesion.



What an absolutely heartless and unenlightened party.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

26. Fuck Abbott.. Fuck Paxton.. Fuck transphobes.. Fuck TERFs...

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The only purpose of this shit is to harm or kill trans kids and teens.. "Family values!" "Won't someone think of the children!?" FUCK YOU, ABBOTT.. FUCK YOU TOO, PAXTON.. You're the ones abusing children..

You Nazis need to be reported for abuse. You're abusing trans kids.. You're abusing kids who don't fit into your chosen boxes.

Driving a person into self-harm or suicide is abuse. And guess what? You're doing it. Right here, right in front of our faces.

Someone report Abbott.. Someone report Paxton.. They're the abusers! This is abuse! And why? So fucking Nazi bitches like Shelley Luther can beat them up some more?!

This is going to drive trans children into self-harm or worse.. Suicide.. But that's okay.. Trans people aren't real people anyway.. Right, Chappelle? Right Abbott? Right Paxton?

I'm past tired of this.. Every fucking day.. Back and forth.. Florida this, Texas that.. Teens are too young to decide this, sprots that..

Lock up Abbott. Lock up Paxton. Death to DeathSentence. How many fucking human rights violations happen HERE before something gets done?

Well, here's where something gets said... I'm tired of the pearl clutching. I'm tired of the tantrums over sports. I'm tired of "you're just a few people." What? Did you think you could give these fuckers a few inches? Here you go, here they are taking a light year... And more. Every goddamned day anymore, it's attack the transgender community. It's been right in everyone's fucking faces since the 2020 election.. QOP "leadership", every fucking day, is how much the trans community can be wounded. These sons of bitches aren't trying to lead. They aren't trying to help. They're just seeing how much hurt they can cause.

I've overwhelmed. Trans teens everywhere, moreso.

Trans rights are human rights. Either stand with us, or stand with the Nazis.

Lock them up. Lock up Abbott. Lock up Paxton. Lock up DeSantis. If this were another country, people would be scream about human rights violations.

These are human rights violations.

[Old Crank]

27. The GOP

Has become the Stassi Party. Though and through.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Nothing says freedom like spying on your neighbors' kids' sex lives

I believe that is how Democrats need to reframe the argument against Dictator Abbott.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

29. There is also post #12 in this very thread...

I think that spells out the argument real well myself.

[orangecrush]

30. It's time

To stop being nice to these motherfuckers.


It's way past time to get up in their faces.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

42. Nice doesn't work...

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Nazi thugs like Abbott think "kindness" is a sign of weakness. The nicer we are, the meaner they get, because they really think we're soft.

[orangecrush]

44. +1

[AZLD4Candidate]

32. Citizen spies: Popular in such countries as:

01: USSR
02: China
03: North Korea
04: Cambodia (1975-1979)
05: Uganda (1971-1979)
06: Libya (1968-2011)
07: Germany (1933-1945)
08: Chile (1973-1990)
09: Iran
10: Spain (1939-1976)

Does anyone see a link here? BTW, we've used them before many times. . .the most recent nationwide would be from 1950-1953.

"If you can't catch a Commie, nail a neighbor." - Roy Cohn.

[Collimator]

33. I think that teaching children. . .

. . . That there is a place called Hell where people burn forever is a form of child abuse.

[Scalded Nun]

34. And the evil continues here, fully embraced by the Texas loons running the show and

the voting majority assholes in the state.

I am so fucking glad we will be out of this shithole state in the next few months.

[Atmashine]

35. Would this effect teachers as they are mandatory reporters?

Because I fully support trans rights.

[Initech]

36. This is some straight up Nazi shit here.

[intheflow]

37. I will never understand why Repukes are so obsessed with

what's in anyone's pants and/or what they do behind closed doors as consenting adults. I mean, I know it's a control issue, but they're really telling on themselves with their harping on it. I think they protest too much!

[Sucha NastyWoman]

40. He is so pitiful.

He used to be fairly moderate for a Republican. But he must be scared shitless of being out-trumped right now.

Scary part is, his primary opponents are mostly as bad or worse.

Thought about voting in the Republican primary, for some of more more moderate candidates, but this time, they are hard to find. And the usually come in way in the back of the pack anyway.

It’s sad what they are doing to this beautiful state.

[patphil]

41. Well, it worked for abortions, why not try it for transgender kids?

I wonder what group of people that asshole will turn his minions loose on next.
He's not going to stop persecuting people he doesn't like as long as he's governor.

This shit has got to stop. Dump Abbott!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. District Attorneys in five of the largest Texas counties say they will refuse to comply with Abbott.

StandWithUkraineHat Retweeted

District Attorneys in five of the largest Texas counties say they will refuse to comply with Abbott's order to prosecute the parents of trans kids.

"We want to ensure our residents with transgender children that they are safe to continue seeking the care their children need."

Link to tweet

Odd not to see Harris County, which includes Houston, but encouraged by this from a county lawyer charged with prosecuting (actual) child abuse

Link to tweet