Mom says trans eighth-grader was questioned by Texas officials at school

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Jessica Valenti
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Sep 9, 2022
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This is both a nightmare and exactly what they promised they would do

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Mom says trans eighth-grader was questioned by Texas officials at school
Amid a lengthy court battle, legal advocates for the LGBTQ community say Texas continues to investigate parents providing gender-affirming care to their children.

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Trans kids are an already-marginalized and at-risk population. Imagine what pulling them out of class to be questioned by officials—making them afraid that they'll be taken from their parents—will do.
8:57 AM · Sep 9, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/09/texas-transgender-student-school-lawsuit/

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On the morning of Aug. 30, a 13-year-old transgender boy was pulled out of class by his school’s administrators, his mother says. While his classmates continued their studies, he sat in a conference room at a Texas middle school where a Department of Family and Protective Services investigator began asking personal questions, court records state.

The reason: The state agency was probing his family following a February directive from Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to investigate the use of gender-affirming care in minors as child abuse, according to court documents.

The nearly hour-long interview touched on a range of personal topics — from the teen’s medical history to his gender dysphoria diagnosis to his suicide attempt years back, court records state. The interrogation left the boy — identified under the pseudonym Steve Koe — shaking and distressed, according to a signed declaration from his mother, named as Carol Koe.

The document, obtained by The Washington Post, is part of a cache of supplemental evidence filed late Wednesday as part of an ongoing lawsuit by LGBTQ advocates seeking to block investigations into families providing gender-affirming care to their transgender children.

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1. Abbott : A Butt

That trans teen will be him in his next life.

In Afghanistan.

[Aristus]

2. Up next:

"Heff you any......Jewish ancestry? You VILL answer our qvestions!"

[Oneironaut]

3. This is the exact type of insanity they want.

Use the state to bully trans people into detransitioning or suicide. They can’t pick on adults yet, so, they’re going for the children.

[vanlassie]

4. Trans care should include a lawyer for each kid.

That way they can’t be bullied. “Talk to my lawyer.”

[blm]

6. ✔️

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5. This is true child cruelty. How disgusting. Texas you just keep getting worse and worse.

You have a chance to get rid of this creep. Do it!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Texas: state-sponsored terrorism.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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8. Analysis: Texas officials bully transgender kids for political points

Paxton and Abbott are attacking and threatening trans children for political points

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Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are turning the law-and-order Republican Party into a gang of bullies, targeting transgender kids — and the parents who support them — with their decision to treat gender-affirming health care as child abuse.

That health care is legal under Texas law, but this is election season. Cynics who think politicians will say anything to get reelected have a new, sparkling piece of evidence......

But most of those aren’t sexy election issues. Paxton is in a runoff. Abbott faces a well-known, well-financed Democrat in November. And as The Texas Tribune’s Patrick Svitek has reported, they think they’ve got a hot item to entice Republican voters.

“This is a winning issue,” Abbott’s top political strategist, Dave Carney, told reporters last week. “Texans have common sense.”....

“How is that considered child abuse to accept them and love them?” one mother told them. “How can they overstep their power and try to come and tell me how I should love my child?”

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10. And this is all because Fox News told them to.

Fox News is a clear and present danger to this country. Imagine if they got a willing stooge like Abbott or DeSantis to do their every evil bidding in the White House.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. DeathSantis and Greg are in a competition to see who can pull the most disgusting election stunt

Both DeathSantis and Greg Abbott are up for reelection and they each want to the 2024 presidential nominee. Both Greg and Deathsantis are using trans children as pawns to appeal to the MAGA idiots

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9. Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are fucking ghouls.

Texas deserves better. Fuck the Christian right!

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12. I'd be suing

Making a kid go through that. You're creating hate for your party. We will always remember this shit MAGAts.

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13. Wow! I'm speechless n/t