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Heartbreaking profile of Morgan Davis, a Texas child welfare agent and transgender man ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott to persecute parents with transgender kids. He reluctantly took one case in hopes of protecting the family, but eventually resigned.
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He came out as trans. Then Texas had him investigate parents of trans kids.
Morgan Davis, who resigned after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state child welfare agency to investigate parents of transgender children for child abuse, is one of more than 2,000 employees who have...
6:53 AM · Sep 23, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/23/texas-transgender-child-abuse-investigations/
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The day after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the states Department of Family and Protective Services to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of families with transgender children, the first case came up, and Morgan Daviss name was on it.
Davis was one of four investigators on a Travis County unit tasked with reviewing claims of child abuse. Usually, he and his colleagues took cases on a rotation. Davis was next in line.
That evening, a Wednesday in late February, his supervisor called and relayed the basic facts. A mandated reporter by law, any licensed professional who works directly with children had turned in a family outside of Austin because theyd allowed their teenager to live as a girl. Under the governors order, someone had to investigate the family for child abuse.
Daviss supervisor told him she knew working the case might feel difficult. Nine months earlier, Davis had come out as a transgender man. He was 52, born in a generation when calling yourself tomboy felt daring enough, but after five decades, hed decided he was finally ready to live as himself.
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Fiendish Thingy
(15,369 posts)If it were union, Davis could have refused the assignment and fought any disciplinary action.
Gruenemann
(967 posts)In Texas? LOL
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)Cops, postal workers, utility workers, many teachers--unionized. In Texas.
I don't know how things work at DCPS, but most of the non-management civil servants working for the state are union employees. My BIL in Austin is one of them.
It's rude to make assumptions about something when you are bereft of the facts of the situation.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,150 posts)His supervisor said he could turn down this assignment if he wanted to. He didn't, because he thought it would be better to have a trans person overseeing the process.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,150 posts)system from within the system. Harmful institutions persist because people keep working within them, even if they think they're mitigating the harm. And just because harmful institutions have full representation in them, that doesn't mean the harm isn't still there. K&R.
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)You've left the job. You owe the state nothing anymore.
If it's illegal to do it, there's a way, somehow, to out the vicious people poking their noses where they don't belong.
They deserve all the misery they inflict on others, and nobody can bring on misery like the internet.
Ruin their lives. It's the least these monsters deserve.