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.
Paxton issues opinion denouncing gender affirmation medical care for trans youth as ‘child abuse’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, indicted nearly seven years on three felony charges on securities fraud violations and now under investigation by the FBI for abuse of power, released a formal attorney general opinion today (Monday, Feb.
21) declaring that “performing certain ‘sex-change’ procedures on children, and prescribing puberty-blockers to them, is ‘child abuse’ under Texas law,” according to a press release from Paxton’s office.
It is important to note that Paxton’s opinion does not have weight of law but is simply Paxton’s opinion of what Texas law says.
Paxton issued the opinion after Paxton “opined in an October 2019 letter to DFPS, stating that the ‘transition’ of James Younger — the biological male son of Jeff Younger—to a ‘female’ through puberty-blocking drugs, among other things, was ‘abuse’ under at least three definitions set out in the Family Code, and that DFPS, therefore, had an independent duty to investigate.” It also comes in the wake of Gov.
