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14 Mar 2022, 8:10 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on March 1, 2022 to challenge a directive from Governor Greg Abbott ordering the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to investigate parents of children who receive gender-affirming care for child abuse. [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
In August 2021, it sided with Republican Governor Greg Abbott and struck down locally imposed mask mandates.Recent scholarship examining the reputation and prestige of state supreme courts ranks the Texas Supreme Court near the bottom on several measures. [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 6:44 am
He was sitting — "in a crowded hall at the South by Southwest festival" — doing an interview with Evan Smith, the CEO and co-founder of The Texas Tribune.Of course, Smith pushed for more: "Greg Abbott is a thug in your mind? [read post]
12 Mar 2022, 6:00 am
Greg Abbott directed the state's child welfare agency to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their children, parents of trans kids are seeking help. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 9:30 am
In February, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to Commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) Jamie Masters, instructing her to investigate the parents of children subjected to certain types of gender-affirming care. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 8:36 am
Building on this opinion, Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to the head of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, instructing them to promptly investigate cases covered by the Attorney General's Opinion. [read post]
5 Mar 2022, 5:51 pm
Greg Abbott's order to investigate for child abuse parents who facilitate gender reassignment treatment for minors. [read post]
4 Mar 2022, 7:25 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Tuesday after Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state health agencies to investigate the medical treatment of transgender youth as “child abuse. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm
” A court blocked Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order directing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate whether parents commit child abuse by allowing their transgender children to receive gender affirming care. [read post]
2 Mar 2022, 7:02 am
On February 22, 2022, Abbott sent a letter to Masters directing the DFPS to investigate reports of “sex change procedures” as defined by Attorney General Paxton. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 2:10 pm
Last week Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state health agencies to investigate the medical treatment of transgender youth as “child abuse. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 9:40 am
Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton told trans youth in Texas last week that they considered their health care to be a form of child abuse. [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 11:44 am
While the Legislature has not elsewhere defined the phrase “genital mutilation”, nor specifically for males of any age, the Legislature’s criminalization of a particular type of genital mutilation supports an argument that analogous procedures that include genital mutilation—potentially including gender reassignment surgeries—could constitute “abuse” under the Family Code’s broad and nonexhaustive examples of child abuse or neglect.On Feb. 22, Texas… [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 1:44 pm
Greg Abbott directed the state’s child protective agency Tuesday to investigate parents who provide medical treatments to their transgender children. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 9:03 pm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and other state agencies to investigate as “child abuse” any gender-affirming health care treatments given to children under eighteen. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 12:53 pm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state health agencies Tuesday to investigate medical treatment of transgender youth as “child abuse. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 5:22 pm
Greg Abbott on down are pressuring the all-GOP Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reverse a December ruling that gutted the attorney general’s power to go after election cases on his own”: Patrick Svitek of The Texas Tribune has this report. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 2:02 pm
Greg Abbott to halt Reed’s execution until “compelling evidence” of his innocence could be investigated. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 12:36 pm
"} Responding, Eckhardt quipped that "Texas Governor Greg Abbott 'hates trees because one fell on him.'" This utterance alluded to Governor Abbott's partial, yet permanent, paralysis caused when a falling tree struck him. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 4:00 am
Judge Crystal Edmonson Levonius was appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to serve as judge of this court. [read post]
