Gender Affirming Care

Texas has begun investigating parents of transgender children for possible child abuse for providing them with gender-affirming care.

Among the first is the family of 16-year-old whose mother works for the state agency responsible for such investigations. 

So I've never heard of the term "gender affirming care" and had to look it up. Gender-affirming health care has been described as “health care that holistically attends to transgender people's physical, mental, and social health needs and well-being while respectfully affirming their gender identity”.

OK, so many of us in here have kids & love them unconditionally. The way I read this is that I should support my daughter if she wants to play football & my son if he wants to be a secretary. Now hold on, I know these are old stereotypes but what I'm getting at is how can you challenge a parent for showing love & support to their child who may be different in the eyes of others?

How the fuck is this child care abuse?

Here's more on the Texan harassment of their citizens...

The employee, who works on the review of reports of abuse, was put on leave last week, according to a suit filed today. An investigator came to the house on Friday. The state is seeking medical records related to the child. The parents have refused to hand them over.

This family has the right to protect their child from that state!

Wow Texas sounds like something out of a science fiction movie ..

American civil liberty union has filed a lawsuit against Abbott's illegal order defining gender affirming healthcare for minors as child abuse.  American medical association urges state officials not to interfere in legal healthcare.

What's next, forcing healthy college students to get shots and that they have no legal right to seek restitution if these shots cause injury!

If a parent decides their kids need a sex change or hormones of the opposite sex so what. 

"I always wanted just boys, breakout the testosterone! 

Shouldn't we let them become adults before they makeup their own mind???

Elective sex change procedures for minors is very different than supporting your son that wants to be a secretary 

Nice try though 

The usual BS out of Texas is just more effing bigotry.

@I_Need_A_Detox

 In all fairness, Brother Mid is like 72. Be probably sincerely thinks they are just talking about being supportive to a little boy who wants to play with Barbie dolls. Based on the nomenclature, and if you weren't aware of the things going these days as it relates to this subject, you would think they were just talking about providing mental health support.

Thanks Stu...I think. 

The parent care given to trans kids has saved lives. A little over 40% of these kids have considered suicide. That's pretty damn high. To equate this care to abuse is ludicrous. Kids growing up have a hard enough time in society & the parents to be singled out by the Governor is preposterous.

I'm not fond of government interference in family matters.

@I_Need_A_Detox

 Hopefully some day you will find love to replace the disdain you have for others. You're the type of kid that wouldn't lend a pencil to a classmate & have grown into the antisocial asshole that doesn't let people merge on to a highway. One of the many differences between you & I is that I actually care about others. You peaked in high school, fucked up your life on drugs & have nothing left to offer the world other than the drivel you spout in this forum.

You have to be one of the most negative people in this forum.

@Midnight1

 Don't have to think. There was nothing but love in that comment.

And there are other parents....

A parent in Ada, Idaho filed a formal complaint with the Ada school board over the book "Gender Queer: A Memoir." 

She went on to say "The school doesn't have to teach our children how to perform oral sex. That's my job!"

Which had librarian Erin Kennedy in Boise, ID interject that excerpts from books can be misinterpreted & taken out of context. She went on to quote from the Book of Ezekiel... 

"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys, and whose emission were like those of horses, so you longed for the lewdness of your youth  when in Egypt and your bosom was caressed."

Moral of the story...don't screw with librarians.

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!

State District Judge Amy Clark Meachum ruled Friday that the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services cannot continue to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children for child abuse. The statewide injunction will remain in effect until the case is heard in July.

Meachum said there is a "substantial likelihood that" lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal will prevail in getting this directive permanently overturned, calling Abbott's actions "beyond the scope of his duty and unconstitutional."

Idaho is pretty dope.

Meanwhile in Jacksonville, FL...

Police interrupted a Florida church service and arrested head pastor Paul Dyal on charges of child sexual abuse under 12. Two other church associates, Vernon Williamson and Jerome Teschendorf, were arrested in Oklahoma on charges of capital sexual battery. They go after the most vulnerable.

Throw away the keys....

    maybe he will improve  some day