Doctors are the ones who prescribe puberty blockers to a child, and yet the governor is saying, investigate the parents. Why target parents and not doctors? Well, i think last year, lawmakers tried to pass a bill that would have changed the definition of child abuse to include this care. And so a lot of political watchers are looking at the governor's order and the attorney general's opinion as an end run around that failure.
Gov. Greg Abbott has instructed child protection officials to investigate the parents of transgender children. Dallas Morning News reporter Lauren McGaughy explains why.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.
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