CPS is targeting 9 Texas families of trans kids. A judge could halt the investigations Friday.
On Friday, a state judge in Travis County may consider a motion by the ACLU of Texas, the ACLU and Lambda Legal to halt these investigations on the grounds that they pose irreparable harm to a subset of children who studies show are far more likely than their peers to contemplate suicide. Some advocates are also planning to show up at a routine public DFPS meeting Friday in the hopes they can urge leaders to halt investigations.
Parents with younger transgender and nonbinary children have been attending online and in-person training sessions and lawyering up, based on guidance from transgender community advocates that parents and children will need separate lawyers. Among the materials these sessions provide is a card teenagers can carry in their backpacks to help them respond to a state official who might try to interview them one-on-one at school.
“You can tell them to go away. You can refuse to speak with them. You can tell them not to take your picture. You can start talking and tell them to stop later,” say the bullet points on a bilingualNichole Worrell, of Austin, whose nonbinary 10-year-old has not sought any medical interventions, said she’s infuriated and angry the state is suddenly targeting families like hers.
“Every family of a transgender person is in the cross-hairs,” she said. “These investigations are all based on assumptions about a child’s medical care.
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