Texas Scorecard by Jacob Asmussen March 8, 2022
However, citizens are still exhorting Gov. Greg Abbott to call for a statewide child protection law. The latest chapter in the years-long statewide fight to protect children occurred late last week in Houston at the nation’s largest pediatric hospital—but citizens still want Gov. Greg Abbott to enact a child protection law.
Texas Children’s Hospital has announced it will stop performing “transgender” experiments on children, in light of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s recent legal opinion on the issue. Paxton said such operations—administering sterilizing cross-sex hormones and puberty blocker drugs, and cutting off minors’ healthy body parts—indeed classify as child abuse, and Abbott afterward ordered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate reports of such cases in the state.
“This step [to halt operations] was taken to safeguard our health care professionals and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications,” the hospital wrote in a statement.
The issue in Texas drew an international spotlight several years ago with the child abuse case of Dallas-area 9-year-old James Younger, whose mother told him he was a girl and wanted to force him—against his father’s wishes—to take such sterilizing drugs and eventually be castrated.
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/americas-largest-pediatric-hospital-to-halt-mutilation-experiments-on-minors/