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24 Mar 2022, 1:22 pm
An appropriate agency to report child abuse would be the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services or local law enforcement. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 11:59 am
Recently, Texas’ governor directed the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate gender affirming care as child abuse. [read post]
22 Mar 2022, 9:02 pm
According to the Governor’s directive, surgical procedures and hormonal intervention are subject to investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS)—and some professionals who fail to report parents of transgender children who receive those interventions may incur criminal penalties. [read post]
Texas appeals court reinstates injunction preventing state from investigating parents of trans youth
22 Mar 2022, 4:54 pm
” The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Lambda Legal then filed a lawsuit to block the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from enforcing the directive. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm
IN THE NEWS A Texas judge continued to block Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order that empowered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents who allow gender-affirming care for their transgender children for child abuse. [read post]
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]
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]
4 Mar 2022, 7:25 am
A judge in Travis County, Texas, has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating the family of a transgender youth who filed a lawsuit earlier this week. [read post]
4 Mar 2022, 3:56 am
John Doe also claims that Detective Gray shared this information with Katherine Purtee, a family case law manager at the Indiana Department of Child Services, who thereafter disclosed the information to A.B. [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]
3 Mar 2022, 7:00 am
Dallas Employment Lawyer Paige Melendez On February 22, 2022, Governor Abbott penned a letter to the Texas Department of Family Protective Services (“DFPS”) in which he imposed a mandate on the State agency to investigate the parents of children who are undergoing any type of gender transitioning treatment. [read post]
2 Mar 2022, 7:02 am
Megan Mooney and Jane and John Doe, acting behalf of themselves and their daughter Mary Doe, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Texas Governor Greg Abbot, Commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Jaime Masters, and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 2:10 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from enforcing a directive to investigate families of transgender youth and the medical professionals who treat them. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 9:40 am
Abbott and Paxton, along with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, want to investigate families simply for following best practice medicine and supporting their trans kids through lifesaving, medically necessary health care. [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… [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 1:44 pm
Abbott’s directive was in a Feb. 22 letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, with copies to the Texas Medical Board and other agencies. *** Read more… [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]
18 Feb 2022, 11:10 am
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs Deputy Superintendent – Trust Services. [read post]
16 Feb 2022, 4:54 pm
So, you know, Marlene, it was exactly one year ago this week that we were all frozen inside our houses here in Texas. [read post]
