{"id":1347642,"date":"2022-02-27T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1347642"},"modified":"2022-02-27T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:23:33","slug":"texas-to-potentially-prosecute-sex-change-surgeries-on-minors-as-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-to-potentially-prosecute-sex-change-surgeries-on-minors-as-child-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas To Potentially Prosecute \u2018Sex Change\u2019 Surgeries On Minors As Child Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-to-potentially-prosecute-sex-change-surgeries-on-minors-as-child-abuse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1347642&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/Greg-Abbott.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Texas plans to investigate and potentially prosecute instances of giving children sex reassignment surgery as child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/uploads\/files\/press\/O-MastersJaime202202221358.pdf\">letter<\/a> last week, state Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to investigate certain \u201cso-called \u2018sex change\u2019 procedures\u201d found to \u201cconstitute child abuse under existing Texas law.\u201d Abbott cited an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21271867-kp-0401\">opinion<\/a> by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]t is already against the law to subject Texas children to a wide variety of elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or estrogen,\u201d Abbott wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas law imposes reporting requirements upon all licensed professionals who have direct contact with children who may be subject to such abuse, including doctors, nurses, and teachers, and provides criminal penalties for failure to report such child abuse,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere are similar reporting requirements and criminal penalties for members of the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas law also imposes a duty on DFPS to investigate the parents of a child who is subjected to these abusive gender-transitioning procedures, and on other state agencies to investigate licensed facilities where such procedures may occur,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019 stance on some sex reassignment surgeries comes as transgenderism in children, teens, and in athletics is a growing issue among state governments. Last year, Arkansas became the first state to ban such surgeries for minors. A number of states have taken action to ban biological males from competing in female sports.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton\u2019s ruling follows an August DFPS finding that some transgender operations, when done on children, constitute child abuse. The DFPS ruling came after Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-performing-transgender-surgery-on-children-is-child-abuse\">asked<\/a> the agency to look into whether such surgeries fell outside of treatments allowable for gender dysphoric children and teens under Texas law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse, subject to all rules and procedures pertaining to child abuse. Such mutilation may cause a \u2018genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury to the child\u2019 [according to Texas law],\u201d DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters wrote in a letter at the time. \u201cThis surgical procedure physically alters a child\u2019s genitalia for non-medical purposes potentially inflicting irreversible harm to children\u2019s bodies. Generally, children in the care and custody of a parent lack the legal capacity to consent to surgical treatments, making them more vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masters noted in his letter that surgery on a child\u2019s genitalia may be allowed and found medically necessary under a certain set of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be warranted for the following conditions including, but not limited to, a child whose body parts have been affected by illness or trauma; who is born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development, such as the presence of both ovarian and testicular tissue; or who does not have the normal sex chromosome structure for male or female as determined through genetic testing,\u201d Masters said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas plans to investigate and potentially prosecute instances of giving children sex reassignment surgery as child abuse.In a letter last week, state Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}