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How a Texan mom’s fight for her trans son left her “financially devastated”
“I am furious about what is happening to these children,” the mom said after moves in the state to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth.
What the Science on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Kids Really Shows
Laws that ban gender-affirming treatment ignore the wealth of research demonstrating its benefits for trans people’s health
Morgan Davis, a former investigator for Texas Child Protective Services. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post)
He came out as trans. Then Texas had him investigate parents of trans kids.
After Gov. Greg Abbott in February ordered child abuse investigations of the parents of transgender children, Morgan Davis, a Child Protective Services worker in Austin, was assigned two cases.
Former Child Protective Services investigator Morgan Davis. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The Washington Post)
Investigating families of trans kids gets personal
When Texas’s governor directed state agencies to investigate gender-affirming care as “child abuse,” investigators on the ground had to carry that mandate out. Today on “Post Reports,” what happens when one of those investigators is trans himself?

As state laws target transgender children, families flee and become ‘political refugees’
As states propose and pass laws targeting transgender youths and their parents, desperate families have uprooted their lives to flee to safer places.
A Texas sports radio host moved to Hawaii to protect his trans son. Few can do likewise
Some Americans with trans children are moving to blue states. Some are considering it. But the vast majority are staying home; they have no choice.
These families with trans kids are leaving their home states to escape criminalization: ‘We’re ready to fight and defend’
As more conservative states vote against trans kids, some parents are seeking refuge elsewhere.
Watch: With a “feeling of betrayal,” one family flees Texas in search of safer climate for their transgender daughter
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents who provide their children with gender-affirming care, driving one such family to leave home.
As Texas Targets Trans Youth, a Family Leaves in Search of a Better Future
As state governments restrict trans rights, families of trans children face the painful decision of whether to stay or move away from their home states.
Texas families with trans kids are leaving the state
The Texas governor and attorney general say gender affirming care for trans kids is child abuse. Some families with trans kids are now relocating to continue the care they say their children need.