Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American attorney who has served as the 48th governor of Texas since January 20, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Abbott previously served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015. He is the third governor of any U.S. state to permanently use a wheelchair. He is also the first disabled governor in Texas history.
BREAKING NEWS: Appellate court denies Paxton’s appeal of TRO stopping investigations of trans children, families
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton A Texas appeals court has upheld a trial court’s temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Family and Protective Services from investigating the family of a trans teen for child abuse.
The ruling came after Attorney General Ken Paxton last week appealed the TRO issued in a lawsuit challenging Gov. Greg Abbott’s March 1 directive to DFPS to investigate families that provide their trans children with access to gender-affirming health care and the healthcare professionals that provide the care.
The directive also ordered healthcare professionals, teachers and others to report such families to DFPS. Abbott’s directive was based on Paxton’s non-binding and widely discredited opinion, issued Feb.
28, declaring gender-affirming health care for children is child abuse. A woman who works for DFPS, her trans teen and her husband, along with a psychologist, filed suit against Abbott and DFPS last week, saying that a DFPS investigator had already been to their house.
