Texas Gov. Abbott asks state CPS to determine if trans surgeries for minors are 'child abuse'
August 11, 2021
The governor of Texas is asking the state’s family services department to compile a report analyzing whether subjecting children with gender dysphoria to sex reassignment surgeries constitutes child abuse.
Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott wrote a letter to Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Jaime Masters Friday, asking the state official to “issue a determination of whether genital mutilation of a child for purposes of gender transitioning through reassignment surgery constitutes child abuse.”
He noted that the department is “responsible for protecting children from abuse.”
“Subjecting a child to genital mutilation through reassignment surgery creates a ‘genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury to the child,’” the governor wrote. “This broad definition of ‘abuse’ should cover a surgical procedure that will sterilize the child, such as orchiectomy or hysterectomy, or remove otherwise healthy body parts, such as penectomy or mastectomy."
"Indeed, Texas already outlaws female genital mutilation of a child, and presumably that also constitutes child abuse," he added.
He urged the department to consider “whether an exception should be made for medically necessary procedures," such as when a child is born with "medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development" or when a child "does not have the normal sex chromosome structure for male or female as determined through genetic testing."
Story by Ryan Foley for the Christian Post. Cover image attribution: World Travel & Tourism Council, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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