https://gab.com/AllenWest/posts/106711815141393812
The American Psychiatric Association has designated gender dysphoria as a mental condition. As well, they determined gender modification procedures, chemical or physical, constitutes child abuse.
Apparently Gov. #GregAbbott is the typical politician litigator who is reticent to make a decision. Governor Abbott, please stop seeking out an excuse for allowing Texas children to be abused by chemical and physical castration. Either you support ending child gender modification in Texas, or you don’t.
The determination of the Texas Department of Family and Child Services is not a basis for your recalcitrance, actually, your cowardice in confronting this moral issue.
https://gab.com/texas_scorecard/posts/106711230096751400
After his initial finger pointing at #txlege house leadership three weeks ago and a tease of executive action to ban child gender mutilation, a longtime priority of grassroots activists, Gov. Abbott finally makes a move with…. a written inquiry?
https://texasscorecard.com/state/gov-abbott-asks-state-agency-to-decide-if-gender-mutilation-is-child-abuse/
AUSTIN — After years of silence on the issue and Republican lawmakers rejecting proposed child protection laws earlier this year, Gov. Greg Abbott has finally made an announcement about the statewide child mutilation issue—by sending a letter requesting more information.
On Friday afternoon, Abbott sent a public letter to the head of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, asking if cutting off children’s healthy body parts—when part of gender mutilation surgeries—classifies as child abuse.
“Subjecting a child to genital mutilation through reassignment surgery creates a ‘genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury to the child,’” the letter reads. “This broad definition of ‘abuse’ should cover a surgical procedure that will sterilize the child, such as orchiectomy or hysterectomy, or remove otherwise healthy body parts, such as penectomy or mastectomy. Indeed, Texas already outlaws female genital mutilation of a child, and presumably that also constitutes child abuse.”
Abbott’s letter comes after a years-long saga sparked by the nationally known case of James Younger, a 9-year-old from Dallas whose mother wanted to force him—against his father’s wishes—to take sterilizing drugs and eventually castrate him.
Earlier this year, state lawmakers proposed several bills during the regular legislative session to outlaw certain similar mutilating operations on minors. But despite citizen outcry and the proposed child protection laws becoming one of the Republican Party of Texas’ top priorities, Republican lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives killed the effort. ..