Confusion, secrecy marked roll out of Texas abuse investigations into transgender kids
The NewsIn one of the emails, one of the department’s staffers wrote the governor wanted teachers, doctors and other professionals required to report child abuse “to report any parents that are encouraging/allowing/involved in allowing” transgender minors to transition.
Multiple supervisors stressed that they needed to know immediately when a report involving a transgender minor was received so the cases could be handled carefully and higher ups could be notified. Another echoed this sentiment, noting, “We will need to discuss having a designated caseworker handle these special cases when they come up. It is being asked that these cases are worked thoroughly without text messages/emails to the family etc.”This need for secrecy was repeated to multiple staffers. One supervisor simply wrote, “No emails or texts are allowed.”
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