'My hair is falling out, I can't sleep. We're not good.' A mom who invited Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to dinner to meet her trans son is now the target of a state investigation his opinion prompted. | via TexasStandard
Amber Briggle says her long fight over gender-affirming care wasn't a choice but her duty. Her Texas family is under investigation after state Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion this year saying gender-affirming treatments for transgender children constitutes child abuse. Later, Gov. Greg Abbott instructed the Department of Family and Protective Services to"I'm really not great," Amber Briggle said."Actually, my hair is falling out. I can't sleep.
"The lead-up to the CPS visit, which actually happened a week ago today, was very stressful and full of anxiety for both of my children," Briggle said."But the caseworker came and went and no one got hauled away in handcuffs, and so they feel like -- they feel like it's over." "Texas legislators have been trying to erase trans kids and harm them and break the hearts of loving parents like me for years. And they're they're finally doing it," Briggle said.Briggle doesn't know who reported her family, but ever since she began advocating for LGBTQ and trans rights years ago, she says has felt a"target right on my back."
"He sat at my table for 2 1/2 hours, you know, eating, like, carefully prepared food, watching us engage with our children and play musical instruments and tell jokes and do magic tricks," Briggle said."He knows firsthand that we are not child abusers.", issued in February, showed Briggle that perhaps her attempt to change his mind about trans rights wasn't as successful as she had thought.
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