Earlier this week, a Houston-area mother of a 17-year-old transgender boy panicked when...
Jessie Jones, who asked to go by a pseudonym to protect her family's identity, packs up as the family is moving out of Texas Tuesday, March 15, 2022, in Houston area. The very real possibility of Child Protective Services showing up at their front door and starting a probe that could separate them from their son is just too horrifying a risk for the fourth-generation Texans and native Houstonians.
Families with transgender children across the state are weighing similar steps after months of increasing political attacks.Family of trans Texas teen sues Abbott, DFPS as state begins identifying gender-affirming care as child abuse “This is now the rest of our year,” Laird recalled thinking. She is looking to move her family to Colorado and hopes to return if Democrats can unseat Abbott in November.
“If I think of what it takes to be a loving, supportive parent of a transgender child, to me, everything about it is rooted in listening in love and acceptance, which is the opposite of child abuse,” Laird said.
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