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.
How to Support a Child on the Gender Spectrum
nytimes.comGov. Greg Abbott of Texas declared last month that medical treatments given to transgender adolescents, including puberty-suppressing drugs and hormones, could be considered child abuse under state law.
Opponents of the move swiftly responded, including President Biden, who described the decision as “cynical and dangerous.” Investigations of alleged abuse sparked by the order were temporarily halted last week after a state court ruled that the policy was “unconstitutional.” According to a 2019 C.D.C.
study, 1.8 percent of U.S. teens identify as transgender, meaning that their gender identity does not match the gender they were assigned at birth.
When researchers interviewed teens in Pittsburgh as part of a 2021 study, they found that nearly one in 10 did not identify as being exclusively male or female.
