The 16-year-old transgender boy's family was then reported to the state for providing gender-affirming care.
According to the lawsuit, child protective services investigators were told that they would be “required to investigatereports of minors receiving prescribed treatments” for “gender dysphoria” and that those cases should be treated “differently from all other reports of abuse or neglect.”
According to the lawsuit, the minor was admitted to a local hospital and referred to an outpatient psychiatric facility. Staff learned that he had been prescribed hormone therapy for treatment of gender dysphoria, and according to the lawsuit, told him and his mother that the family"might be reported for ‘child abuse’ because of Abbott’s Letter and DFPS’s new rule.
According to the lawsuit, the report was made by someone at the outpatient psychiatric facility and theThe other two families in the lawsuit are also facing investigation by the state. One family said in the lawsuit that the investigation had “terrorized” them and “inflicted ongoing and irreparable harm,” including an impact on their son’s mental health.
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