Texas Bans Transgender Surgeries On Children
By RAYMOND WOLFE AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) has declared that performing transgender surgeries on children constitutes child abuse and could lead to prosecution.“Genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse, subject to all rules and procedures pertaining to child abuse,” DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters wrote August 10 in a letter to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The governor had asked Masters the previous week to review whether transgender surgeries could be classified as abuse against minors.“As you have described, this surgical procedure physically alters a child’s genitalia for non-medical purposes potentially inflicting irreversible harm to children’s bodies,” Masters wrote to Abbott. “Generally, children in the care and custody of…Continue Reading