transgender kids

1A recently traveled to Austin, Texas, to speak with trans kids and their families.

Some families no longer see a future for their transgender kids in Texas. They’re moving to states with strong civil rights protections for trans people.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Eleanor Klibanoff of The Texas Tribune about the child welfare workers who are leaving their jobs over state orders to investigate the families of trans kids.

This Thursday, people will celebrate Trans Day of Visibility, honored annually and internationally to celebrate trans and nonbinary people.

Texas Child Protective Services opened an investigation into the Briggle family after the governor and attorney general called gender-affirming care child abuse.

Rio Grande Valley trans rights advocates say that CPS investigations — resulting from a directive from Gov. Greg Abbott to probe the families of trans children for child abuse — are discouraging civic participation in the region.

In an order late Monday, the Third Court of Appeals reinstated a statewide injunction into the practice that was previously granted by a state district judge earlier this month.

The judge halted the state from enforcing Gov. Greg Abbott's directive to launch "child abuse" investigations against parents getting gender-affirming care for their transgender children.

The Texas Attorney General is defending the governor’s decision to order the state’s child welfare agency to investigate parents, and health care professionals for providing certain gender-affirming medical treatments to transgender kids.

Citing potential criminal penalties, Texas Children’s Hospital will no longer provide hormone therapy to transgender patients.