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AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Department of Family Protective Services (DFPS) to rule on transgender surgeries for minors.
“Please issue a determination of whether genital mutilation of a child for purposes of gender transitioning through reassignment surgery constitutes child abuse,” Abbott wrote in a letter Friday to DFPS commissioner Jaime Masters, whom he appointed in 2019.
“Subjecting a child to genital mutilation through reassignment surgery creates a ‘genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury to the child,’” Abbott’s letter stated. “This broad definition of ‘abuse’ should cover a surgical procedure that will sterilize the child, such as orchiectomy or hysterectomy, or remove otherwise healthy body parts, such as penectomy or mastectomy.”
“Indeed, Texas already outlaws female genital mutilation of a child, and presumably that also constitutes child abuse,” the letter noted.
Abbott emphasized to Masters that a determination of abuse would require DFPS to investigate parents involved in cases of surgical mutilation of minors with gender dysphoria:
As you know, classifying genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery as child abuse would also impose a duty on DFPS to conduct prompt
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