The Texas agency tasked with investigating parents who provide their trans kids with gender-affirming care has been under federal court monitoring for over a decade for violating the civil rights of kids in foster care.
“LGBTQ+ youth in foster care tend to experience more bullying, more physical violence, more sexual violence,” Murphy said. “We’re not doing these kids any favors by bringing them into a system where they might continue to experience trauma.”
Gender-affirming care can often just mean social transition — allowing a child to express themselves as their gender, rather than the sex they were assigned to at birth. Some teenagers are given puberty blockers, which are completely reversible; hormone treatment; or, in extremely rare cases, surgeries.
She feels like she’s letting her employees down by sending them to perform these investigations that she herself does not support, and worries about the consequences for the families that are getting caught in this net. “We showed her all the food in our cabinets, the kids’ artwork on the walls, the toys, books, and games in the family room,” she said. “We did not allow her in the kids’ bedrooms. She had violated our home by entering it. We didn’t want her violating their sacred spaces, too.”
“They make a finding that there’s reason to believe that you abused your child, and they can keep you from getting all kinds of professional licenses or employment,” said retired state District Judge Mike Schneider. “You can’t teach school. You can’t work in a Sunday school. You can’t work in a day care facility, all kinds of stuff.”
“I don’t think most [parents] realize that they’re in a lot more potential jeopardy than they could ever even imagine,” said Schneider, who is suing the state in federal court on behalf of a Beaumont-area woman who has been on the registry for more than a year, even after a judge determined there was no merit to the child abuse allegation.
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