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Texas parents with trans kids speak out on shocking ‘child abuse’ policy

A new law in one US state means families with trans children can be investigated for ‘child abuse’. Now parents are fighting back

Texas parents with trans kids speak out on shocking ‘child abuse’ policy
Protest outside the State Capitol in Austin against Texas’s new anti-trans policy, 1 March 2022 | Bob Daemmrich / ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved
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Texas’s new state policy of targeting the loving parents of transgender children with sham “child abuse” investigations has shocked Americans of conscience and observers around the world.

But while the policy represents an immensely harmful escalation, the assault on trans rights has been well under way in Texas and other American states for years.

The inhumane new policy – currently in limbo amid rapid legal manoeuvring – seems to have been inspired by the case of Jeff Younger.