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Texas uses trans law exactly as expected. (1 Viewer)

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott put in motion abuse investigations into the parents of some transgender kids, child welfare supervisor Randa Mulanax said what happened next strayed from normal protocols.

There was unusual secrecy, with texts and emails discouraged. Allegations about trans kids received elevated status. In Texas, fewer than three in 10 child welfare investigations end with findings that harm likely occurred — classified as “reason to believe” — but the changes looked to Mulanax like these cases would be predetermined from the start.

“It was my understanding that they wanted to be found ‘reason to believe,’”
Mulanax told The Associated Press in her first interview since leaving the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, where she worked for six years until quitting last month. “That’s why we were having to figure out a way to staff it up and see how we go about it, since it doesn’t match our policy right now.”

This all sounds so familiar.
 



This all sounds so familiar.
Slippery slope, Wedge issue, call it whatever you want but the upshot is that it starts with things like trans folks and before you know it everyone but white evangelicals are under the gun.
 
Texas is sliding into a ultraconservative state in a very scary way.
Texas has advertised themselves as being "Like a whole other country" for years. They're not kidding.
 

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