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The war on trans people

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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What Happened in Texas With Governor Abbot's Executive Order 20 21?

Governor abbot issued a directive following attorney general can paxton's opinion letter, directing the so called child protective service agency to consider gender affirming care a form of child abuse. Families started being investigated just because they had adolescent trans gender children who were suspected of receivinggender affirming care. And not only that, the governor is threatened any mandatory reporter, which includes any member of the general public, with criminal prosecution if they don't report on the possibility of such treatment. The law is currently blocked. But we have recently heard that state intends to restart investigations into families. We do know that removing children from their homes is harmful. They got, there's a lot of data on and

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