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.
Texas Youth Gender Clinic Closed Last Year Under Political Pressure
On a tense conference call last November with half a dozen doctors and executives at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dr.
John Warner relayed a somber message: The only specialty clinic in the state to treat transgender adolescents was facing unrelenting political pressure to close.
State lawmakers had already sent formal inquiries about the clinic, Genecis, which was financed by the public university and housed at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas.
Activists calling the clinic’s treatments “chemical castration” had shown up at the office of one of the children’s hospital’s board members.
