“Apparently, to the Department of Family and Protective Services, it is not self-evident that chemically castrating little boys … is child abuse.”
AUSTIN — “I keep asking myself: Why do we have to work this hard to get our elected officials to protect children in this state?”
Jeff Younger, a Dallas-area father who’s been trying to protect his son in a nationally known child abuse case, recently summarized the current situation in Texas: Despite a years-long fight, state officials still won’t take action to stop medical professionals from disfiguring minors across the state.
On Friday, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services finally responded to a letter from State Rep. Bryan Slaton about child mutilation operations—by avoiding the issue and punting responsibility to yet another official.
The overall issue is that currently in Texas, medical professionals are allowed to cut off children’s healthy body parts as part of gender surgeries, or chemically castrate them by giving them sterilizing cross-sex hormones and puberty blocker drugs.
The issue largely surfaced because of the high-profile case of James Younger, a 9-year-old whose mother wanted to force him—against Jeff’s wishes—to take sterilizing drugs and eventually be castrated.
Since the national coverage of the case two years ago, the issue became a Republican Party of Texas priority, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office even wrote the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the matter (though with no apparent results). Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled state Legislature chose to reject proposed laws that would have outlawed the operations, and Gov. Abbott remained nearly silent on the issue the whole time. In their recently concluded special session, the Texas Legislature again refused to approve protections.
Finally, in early August, Abbott made an “announcement” on the matter—by sending a public letter to DFPS, asking them to decide if cutting off a child’s healthy body parts in such surgeries classifies as child abuse. more here
I’m quite certain that personally experiencing chemical castration themselves would help them reach a decision.
“ Since the national coverage of the case two years ago, the issue became a Republican Party of Texas priority…”
Meaning that they recognize this as an opportunity to fund raise off of. Other than that the Republican establishment couldn’t give a shit. They have no principles whatsoever and are just fine with “going along to get along.”
Hell yes, this is child abuse of the worst kind. This kid needs to be taken away from his crazy mother ASAP and she needs to be sterilized pronto and maybe have a lobotomy as well.
Tx is a conservative state and they still won’t bring the hammer down and make the bureaucracy a conservative one.
People moving to fl thinking it is conservative and not considering that desantis one by less than one half of one percent.
Tx pretty close to be the same.
If you want to move to a conservative state, look for one that is in no danger of flippiing in any given election. Because if you move there and it flips, the move was for nothing.
And that’s not even considering that these so called conservative states are filled with liberals in their state gov’t bureaucracies.
If everything is big in Texas, this minor detail to Texas is not important.
A recent issue of Imprimus, written by Abigail Shier, provides some context for why this issue has become such a crisis for our children:
“Gender Idiology Run Amok”
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/gender-ideology-run-amok/
In her article she focuses primarily on teen girls; the group who has seen the fastest, highest numbers of what Shrier terms a “social contagion.”