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Greg Abbott’s Child Protection Agency Opens Investigation into Parent Over Transgender Daughter’s Medical Care: Lawsuit

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Last week Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate anyone providing or enabling transgender children to receive certain medically-necessary care, claiming it legally falls under the state’s definition of child abuse.

A lawsuit filed by the ACLU and Lambda Legal claims the agency has already opened at least one investigation into a parent with a transgender daughter.

That mother works for the very agency now investigating her, and she has been placed on administrative leave, The New York Times reports.

Abbott, facing a difficult re-election battle, used a legal opinion authored by his attorney general, Ken Paxton – who is facing an even more challenging re-election campaign – to order DFPS to perform the investigations.

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