The Republican-controlled state of Texas has confirmed that they are investigating 9 different instances of caring parents providing gender-affirming care for their transgender children. This is part of the new Texas law designed to force children into gender roles that Republicans have disguised as caring about the sanctity of families. This is an outright assault on loving families, as Farron Cousins explains.
Link – https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/us/texas-nine-investigations-transgender-minors/index.html
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Just a couple weeks ago, the state of Texas decided to essentially redefine child abuse in the state. And it’s now considered by the Republican controlled state of Texas. That child abuse also encompasses getting gender affirming care for children. And last week it was revealed that the state of Texas currently has nine active investigations into families who got gender affirming care for their child, for their transgender child. The parents were loving and accepting enough that instead of beating the child, which is not uncommon instead of disowning the child and kicking them out, which is also not uncommon, instead of forcing them into therapy to try to fix them, which also not uncommon. The parent said, we love you. We want you to be happy. We want you to be you, whoever that you may, we support it because we love you. And now the state of Texas is investigating nine of those families. And if they do end up charging them with child abuse, they’d lose custody of their kids. And the kids would maybe go to a family member, maybe more likely given that it’s Texas go into the foster care system, where they could experience abuse, harm the psychological damage of of course, being stripped from their parents who loved them clearly.
And that’s what’s happening. That’s what’s happening in our, our country today. We’re back at the point after years and years of forward progress with the LGBTQ community, we’re back to literally criminalizing them. And if we can’t put you in jail for being transgender, then by God, we’re gonna put parents in jail for letting you be transgender. You can’t read about transgender issues in school anymore. We Bann, all those books called them pornography because we don’t understand anything. We’ve made it illegal in the state of Florida to even talk about these issues with kids in schools, kids that are going through probably one of the most difficult times in their lives, seeking some kind to person who they can talk to. Nope, illegal in Florida. But of course not as bad as what they’re doing in Texas, trying to strip these children of parents who actually accept and love them. This is literally the opposite of child abuse.
Republicans don’t care about families, Republicans care about winning elections. And if it means tearing family families apart in order to do that, they’re gonna do it. This is sick. This is twisted. This is infuriating. And I’m gonna say something here that I also said over at ring of fire, because I think this needs to be reiterated with all of these state level Republican attacks on already marginalized members of our communities, women seeking abortions, minorities, critical race theory, you know, that attack and the attacks on the LGBTQ community. If people that do what I do are not talking about these issues on their channels. And instead they’re whining and and moaning that, oh, this politician that I put personally up on a pedestal, isn’t as progressive as I want them to be. If you watch any channels that aren’t covering this stuff, this crap coming from these Republicans don’t ever watch them again, because they’re ignoring the real issues, pushing idiot, talking points for clicks and likes and money. They’re not worth your time. If they’re not talking about these real honest issues that are literally ripping families apart, they could put parents in jail. They could put teachers in jail. Uh, uh, Missouri could put women in jail for seeking an abortion. If they have an ectopic pregnancy that would kill them. Those are the real issues that matter in this country right now. And I encourage everyone to know, not watch any YouTuber. That’s not willing to spend the time to talk about these important issues.
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