The Biden administration on Wednesday said it was needless and dangerous for Texas elected officials to label gender-affirming medical care for transgender...
, which authors standards of health care for gender-diverse people.
“Our nation’s leading pediatricians support evidence-based, gender affirming care for transgender young people. HHS stands with transgender youth and their medical providers,” she said in a statement toProgress Texas, a progressive political group, went a step further than the White House on Wednesday by accusing Abbott and Paxton of the “immoral” behavior of “terrorizing trans kids and their families.
CPS cannot remove a child from their parent or guardian without a court order, the civil rights legal group said, and no court in the country has found that gender-affirming care is child abuse.
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