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Date: October 01, 2022 08:17AM
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/transgender-student-questioned-by-texas-officials-at-school/269-5d234391-3110-4dd9-8a47-a71b999c875aTransgender 8th grader taken out of class for questioning by Texas child welfare investigator, mom says
The mother's declaration is part of an ongoing lawsuit by LGBTQ+ advocates against Gov. Greg Abbott's order to investigate gender-affirming care.
AUSTIN, Texas — The mother of a transgender boy says her 13-year-old son was removed from class and questioned without a parent present by a Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) investigator on Aug. 30.
In a letter filed in court late Wednesday, Carol Koe, using a pseudonym, said the DFPS investigator questioned her son in a school conference room about "his most intimate thoughts, his family, his diagnosis" and "she asked him if he was taking any 'performance enhancing drugs.'"
The interview lasted nearly an hour, the mother said in her declaration to the court.
The son, who was assigned the female sex at birth, was too upset to go back to class and "had a meltdown," the mother said.
The filing is part of a new batch of evidence filed in an ongoing lawsuit by LGBTQ+ advocates asking the court to block Gov. Greg Abbott's order requiring DFPS to investigate families of transgender youth for providing gender-affirming care.
Koe told the court the DFPS investigator said she "was being investigated for 'child abuse' for seeking testosterone treatment" for her son "and that it was 'illegal' to do so."
During the 2021 legislative session, Texas lawmakers failed to pass bills restricting gender-affirming care.
In August 2021, DFPS deemed gender reassignment surgery as child abuse except to correct "medically verifiable genetic disorders of sex development."
However, medical experts widely agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary and rarely includes surgery.
Instead, most care includes puberty or hormone blockers, which delay puberty but can be reversed.