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Recently, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Governor Greg Abbott performed in a diabolical Texas two-step. See, last year the legislature failed to pass a bill criminalizing gender affirming care for trans kids. But this is an election year, and Paxton is getting primaried from the right by Rep. Louie Gohmert. And while Gohmert may be dumb as a stump, he does have the advantage of not being under felony indictment ss Paxton is.
So Paxton teamed up with Fort Worth Republican state Rep. Matt Krause, who sent him a query as to whether doctors and parents might be prosecuted under existing child abuse laws for providing medically necessary care to transgender children.
Turns out, they could! At least according to the exceptionally cruel Ken Paxton.
Paxton prefaces his legal "Opinion" with his entirely subjective opinion of gender-affirming medical care, writing:
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"it is important to note that it remains medically impossible to truly change the sex of an individual because this is determined biologically at conception. No doctor can replace a fully functioning male sex organ with a fully functioning female sex organ (or vice versa). In reality, these 'sex change' procedures seek to destroy a fully functioning sex organ in order to cosmetically create the illusion of a sex change."
