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The Texas transgender panic

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The Governor's Order Targets Parents and Not Doctors

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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.

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