{"id":1356971,"date":"2022-03-03T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356971"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:53:11","slug":"joe-biden-texas-categorizing-transgender-procedures-child-abuse-is-government-overreach-at-its-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-texas-categorizing-transgender-procedures-child-abuse-is-government-overreach-at-its-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden: Texas Categorizing Transgender Procedures &#039;Child Abuse&#039; Is &#039;Government Overreach at Its Worst&#039;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-texas-categorizing-transgender-procedures-child-abuse-is-government-overreach-at-its-worst%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=1356971&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Texas officials categorizing transgender procedures on children as \u201cchild abuse\u201d is \u201cgovernment overreach at its worst,\u201d President Joe Biden said on Wednesday,\u00a0months after attempting to force millions of Americans to get a vaccine against their will.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/01\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-wins-republican-primary-landslide-victory\/\">won<\/a> the Texas Republican primary in a landslide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/23\/texas-gov-abbott-directs-state-to-investigate-child-transgender-procedures-it-constitutes-child-abuse\/\">directed<\/a> state agencies to investigate transgender procedures on children, pointing to an opinion by the\u00a0Office of the Attorney General (OAG), which asserted that \u201ca number of so-called \u2018sex change\u2019 procedures constitute child abuse under existing Texas law.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/03\/02\/statement-by-president-biden-on-texas-attacks-on-transgender-youth\/\">attacked<\/a> Abbott\u2019s decision, calling it \u201ccynical and dangerous\u201d and deeming the move as \u201cgovernment overreach at its worst,\u201d conveniently ignoring his administration\u2019s gross instances of government overreach in the last year of his presidency, including tying job security to the vaccine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16738556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP_21076657118000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16738556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP_21076657118000.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Gov Greg Abbott speaks during a news conferenced about migrant children detentions Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Dallas. (AP Photo\/LM Otero)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas Gov Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference (AP Photo\/LM Otero).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Governor of Texas has directed state officials to open child abuse investigations into families simply because they have provided access to affirming care for their children,\u201d Biden said in the statement, deeming the move an \u201canti-transgender\u201d attack that could \u201ccallously threaten to harm children and their families just to score political points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden pointed to the Department of Health and Human Services, which announced \u201cseveral actions to keep transgender children in Texas and their families safe\u2014putting the state of Texas on notice that their discriminatory actions put children\u2019s lives at risk.\u201d That includes actively expanding access to what the administration calls \u201cgender-affirming care for transgender children.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRespected medical organizations have said that access to gender-affirming care for transgender children can benefit mental health, lower suicide rates, and improve other health outcomes,\u201d he said. \u201cChildren, their parents, and their doctors should have the freedom to make the medical decisions that are best for each young person\u2014without politicians getting in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, critics say \u201caffirming\u201d care is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/misguided-affirmations\">misguided answer<\/a> for children who claim to be transgender:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the United States, data are unfortunately harder to come by\u2014a serious problem in itself\u2014but clinicians like the authors of the <i>Washington Post<\/i> piece who practice affirming care have given firsthand reports of a massive influx of teenage-patient referrals, also heavily favoring girls. Girls who transition and later regret it regularly comment on the bewildering ease with which they got hormones. One de-transitioner recently <a href=\"https:\/\/lacroicsz.substack.com\/p\/by-any-other-name?r=18ll6h&#038;utm_campaign=post&#038;utm_medium=web&#038;utm_source=url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> that she was given testosterone on her <i>first visit<\/i> to a Planned Parenthood. There is surely irony in the fact that an organization that purports to be a bastion of \u201cwomen\u2019s health\u201d is helping distressed girls escape womanhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Better explanations exist for the surge in referrals. Hormone therapy promises adolescents a technological quick fix for the self-doubts and anxieties that accompany puberty, which is when most kids begin to experience gender-related distress. Declaring a transgender identity can bring immediate positive attention to those who feel dismissed or ignored. Clinicians have noted that it can be a symptom of unresolved depression and anxiety or a response to past sexual abuse. In a 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0202330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, Brown University\u2019s Lisa Littman found that girls were coming out as trans boys in clusters at 70 times the rate one would expect, given the prevalence of gender dysphoria in the general population. In the typical scenario, these girls declared themselves trans boys after a prolonged period of social isolation and exposure to social media. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/contributor\/abigail-shrier_1377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abigail Shrier<\/a>, who has devoted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters\/dp\/1684510317\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=1645976661&#038;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a> to this phenomenon, finds that the primary factor behind girls seeking hormones and mastectomies is \u201csocial contagion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In short, gender dysphoria is a real and documented condition, but to believe, as gender-affirming \u201cexperts\u201d do, that a \u201cconsistent, persistent, and insistent\u201d declaration of cross-gender identity is proof of having been \u201cassigned\u201d the wrong sex at birth requires either breathtaking naivete or deep immersion in ideology (assuming there is a difference between the two). One must be willing to ignore just about everything that we have come to know about childhood development.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nonetheless, the Biden administration is not altering its approach, asserting that \u201caffirming a transgender child\u2019s identity is one of the best things a parent, teacher, or doctor can do to help keep children from harm, and parents who love and affirm their children should be applauded and supported, not threatened, investigated, or stigmatized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s plan for the expansion of \u201cgender-affirming\u201d care follows Abbott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21272649-abbott-letter-to-masters\">February 22 letter <\/a>to\u00a0Jaime Masters, commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), noting that the OAG determined that many so-called sex-change procedures on children \u201cconstitute child abuse.\u201d Therefore, the agency should \u201cconduct a prompt and thorough investigation of any reported instances of these abusive procedures in the State of Texas,\u201d Abbott instructed.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott added that DFPS should also \u201cinvestigate 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<\/p>\n<p>The letter followed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s opinion, in which he wrote that \u201cthe Texas Family Code is clear\u2014causing or permitting substantial harm to the child, or the child\u2019s growth and development is child abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCourts have held that an unnecessary surgical procedure that removes a healthy body part from a child can constitute a real and significant injury or damage to the child,\u201d the opinion reads in part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas officials categorizing transgender procedures on children as \u201cchild abuse\u201d is \u201cgovernment overreach at its worst,\u201d President Joe Biden said on Wednesday,\u00a0months after attempting to force millions of Americans to<\/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-1356971","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\/1356971","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=1356971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356971\/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=1356971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}