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Texas AG Ken Paxton's trans care opinion filled with false claims and distortions, researchers say [View all]
Ken Paxton did a non-binding legal opinion that stated that gender affirming care was child abuse. Abbott used this opinion to order state agencies to investigate and punish parents and professionals who are providing gender affirming care to trans youths. Paxton is an idiot and a bad lawyer. Paxton's opinion is pure crap.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton made false assertions, omitted key facts and relied on debunked scientific claims when he determined that providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth should constitute child abuse, according to a team of medical and legal researchers.
The authors of the report, published Monday, include seven researchers from Yale University, Yale Law School and the University of Texas Southwestern.
“After examining the AG opinion ... we conclude that (its) medical claims are not grounded in reputable science and are full of errors of omission and inclusion,” they wrote. “These errors, taken together, thoroughly discredit the AG opinion’s claim that standard medical care for transgender children and adolescents constitutes child abuse.”
Paxton issued the opinion in February, prompting Gov. Greg Abbott to direct the state’s child welfare agency to immediately open child abuse investigations into families who provide gender-affirming care for their children. The state has initiated at least nine probes, but they are paused amid ongoing litigation.
“The repeated errors and omissions in the AG Opinion are so consistent and so extensive that it is difficult to believe that the opinion represents a good-faith effort to draw legal conclusions based on the best scientific evidence,” the report states. “It seems apparent that the AG opinion is, rather, motivated by bias and crafted to achieve a preordained goal: to deny gender-affirming care to transgender youth.”
The authors of the report, published Monday, include seven researchers from Yale University, Yale Law School and the University of Texas Southwestern.
“After examining the AG opinion ... we conclude that (its) medical claims are not grounded in reputable science and are full of errors of omission and inclusion,” they wrote. “These errors, taken together, thoroughly discredit the AG opinion’s claim that standard medical care for transgender children and adolescents constitutes child abuse.”
Paxton issued the opinion in February, prompting Gov. Greg Abbott to direct the state’s child welfare agency to immediately open child abuse investigations into families who provide gender-affirming care for their children. The state has initiated at least nine probes, but they are paused amid ongoing litigation.
“The repeated errors and omissions in the AG Opinion are so consistent and so extensive that it is difficult to believe that the opinion represents a good-faith effort to draw legal conclusions based on the best scientific evidence,” the report states. “It seems apparent that the AG opinion is, rather, motivated by bias and crafted to achieve a preordained goal: to deny gender-affirming care to transgender youth.”
The Biden administration took steps to block this idiotic process and the matter is in litigation
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