The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services instructed staffers to keep quiet about child abuse investigations related to gender-affirming care, according to internal agency communications reviewed by The Texas Tribune.
classifying such care as child abuse. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy slammed the directive, calling out the state for inserting itself between doctors and patients.from investigating two families for providing gender-affirming care to their children. Meachum will decide whether to block child abuse investigations over gender-affirming care for all Texas families at a Dec. 5 trial.
earlier this year that documenting investigations relentlessly was a standard process that allowed the department to track who was making decisions about each case. “Everyone you need to stay off social media with any opinions based on the following,” one employee wrote about Paxton’s opinion. “We will be investigating these cases. This will get messy.”“We need to ensure our high performing workers are assigned these cases because there will be a lot of eyes on them,” Keith Gailes, a regional director in Texarkana, wrote to leadership.
One supervisor repeatedly brought up concerns with other members of the agency about the nature of the investigations. Shaun Santiago raised questions about whether the department could be forced to follow through with the directive.
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