The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.
When my relatives in Texas say that THEY don't support the nonsense coming out of the state capital surrounding transgender Texans and their families, all I can say is - then why on earth did you vote the officials who are destroying lives into office and how hard are you working to vote them out and reverse their deleterious policies? ...crickets...
Yup! Some on the right try to act indifferent or even supportive of trans people but won’t acknowledge how they empower the leaders who are constantly attacking trans people
Ken Paxton is a sick, corrupt criminal who should be behind bars. I’m disgusted by his actions, and I’m disgusted by the people in the state who looked beyond his crimes to re-elect him. I’m ashamed to be from Texas, and I’m grateful I escaped 20 years ago. How can we help others get out of TX if needed?
And since what he wants is to force boys to grow up with breasts and periods and to force girls to grow up with beards and deep voices -- he is the child abuser!
42 U.S.C. § 1983, 18 U.S.C. § 241, & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecution should be in his future, and it should be a Dem plank to make it so!
Where is HIPAA in all of this? What happened to therapist/client privilege?
Sadly, I have relatives in TX who have family reunions during Thanksgiving every couple years. I've sadly informed them that I will no longer go to their state for these since, even as an adult, my very existence is now considered illegal there.
Two points: First, HIPAA protects the client's information, not the therapist. Second, therapist/client privilege can be interpreted not to exist under this interpretation (that's the argument the state will make) because as mandatory reporters, therapists are required to break confidentiality to report child abuse - which they have now defined basically existing as transgender as. If they don't, they could lose their license. It's incredibly fucked up. It will cause many therapists to stop seeing transgender children, others to leave the state, and an overall drop in quality of care among providers who remain.
Ugh, you're right. By classifying it as 'child abuse' in statute, they dissolve existing protections because therapists are 'mandatory reporters'. Motherflowers!!
And for a smile, I'm remembering the StarTrek NG episode where Ryker fell in love with a woman from a planet where cis-het people were the ones labeled 'deviant'.
I'm going to run for Attorney General and declare that raising a child as a Republican is child abuse. I think it makes more sense than raising a trans child is abuse.
But they can’t make these cases against therapists without also disclosing the patients’ information, and the entire basis for the disclosure in these cases would be for the bad faith reason of transphobia. Without cause, these are still unjustified disclosures of patient information violating HIPAA all the same even if they play semantic games with the wording of their laws. And in other recent instances, the rightwingers have outright ignored HIPAA
The right has already violated HIPAA numerous times in the age of trans panic. They think nothing of privacy when it comes to trans people. States like Florida a few years ago required colleges to turn over documents related to GAC for people who got it through college insurance plans (iow, all or mostly adults’ healthcare records). Most or all schools complied. This of course was before Florida proceeded to make GAC virtually inaccessible for anyone in the state. Glad I left Florida before transitioning! But like you, I have a broken heart over not feeling safe to visit home. Hope all this ends soon!
Attorney General Ken Paxton is not protecting children. He is using the power of the state to punish them. His interpretation of SB 14 and related Texas laws is not law enforcement — it is political persecution dressed up as public policy.
This is what government overreach looks like: politicians overriding doctors, ideology replacing science, and fear being used as a weapon against families who are simply trying to care for their children.
Doctors are threatened for practicing medicine.
Parents are treated like criminals for loving their kids.
Transgender young people are told by their own government that their existence is a problem to be eliminated.
That is not protection.
That is cruelty.
Let us be clear about the reality Paxton wants to hide: gender-affirming care is supported by medical professionals across the world because it saves lives.
Yet instead of listening to physicians, psychologists, and families, Texas leadership has chosen scapegoating over compassion and propaganda over evidence.
This campaign is designed to intimidate — to make providers afraid, to isolate families, and to push transgender Texans out of public life entirely. It is an attempt to govern through fear.
And we refuse to accept it.
Government does not own our bodies.
Politicians do not control our identities.
And no attorney general has the moral authority to decide which children deserve care and which do not.
History teaches us that injustice rarely announces itself as injustice. It claims to be protection.
It claims to be tradition. It claims to be necessary.
But history also teaches us something else: when people stand together and refuse to be silent, oppression fails.
We stand with transgender Texans.
We stand with the doctors who refuse to abandon their oath.
We stand with parents who will not stop fighting for their children.
And we say to Ken Paxton and anyone who would weaponize the law against vulnerable people: your intimidation will not erase this community, your policies will not silence truth, and your misuse of power will be challenged everywhere — in the courts, in the streets, and at the ballot box.
Because dignity is not negotiable.
Healthcare is not a political bargaining chip.
And human rights do not disappear because a politician decides they are inconvenient.
The message today is simple:
We see what is happening.
We will not look away.
And we will not stop until every Texan is treated with equal dignity under the law.
And let this be the warning carried beyond this moment: no government that rules through fear lasts forever. Laws built on exclusion crumble under the weight of courage, and every attempt to silence a community only strengthens its resolve. The voices rising today — from families, from doctors, from allies, from transgender Texans themselves — will not fade when the microphones turn off. They will grow louder, stronger, and more unstoppable until justice replaces cruelty and equality is no longer debated but guaranteed. We are not asking for dignity. We are claiming it — together, openly, and without apology.
TEAXANS MUST VOTE HIM OUT - YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS
Exactly. Gender affirming care is LIFE SAVING CARE, and we have AMPLE scientific evidence proving this. Yet as you say, ideology has replaced science in the Republican Party, which has MANdated that demonizing trans people is to be national policy. Because the GOP has gone FULL FASCIST, and fascists ALWAYS attack sexual minorities and marginalized populations first. They want EVERYONE to fit into tiny little boxes of THEIR making, and if you refuse, you WILL be eliminated.
We've seen this story before. It does not end well.
Do you suppose he ever questions himself? I do it all the time. That's how I know I'm doing good things in my life because I often wonder about that and I often reevaluate my actions and change my actions if I can do better. I think that's a big part of the difference between us and them.
Ken Paxton isn’t sane. He lives in a religious fantasy world of his own making to justify his bigotry against trans people. The bigotry is a means to an end for Mr. Paxton. His real goal is satisfying a lust for power.
He’s a disgusting person who should be in jail, a wannabe. It is not law, just an opinion. But the Board asked for this opinion, which I’m curious to know why. As an LCSW-S gender affirming therapist in Texas, I will be watching why the board asked for this opinion. 🤬😡🤬😡
"...in no world should Texans’ tax dollars be used to permanently harm children..." Apparently, paxton has no moral qualms about how his support of the orange turd has resulted in Texans' tax dollars being used for precisely that.
When my relatives in Texas say that THEY don't support the nonsense coming out of the state capital surrounding transgender Texans and their families, all I can say is - then why on earth did you vote the officials who are destroying lives into office and how hard are you working to vote them out and reverse their deleterious policies? ...crickets...
Yup! Some on the right try to act indifferent or even supportive of trans people but won’t acknowledge how they empower the leaders who are constantly attacking trans people
Ken Paxton is a sick, corrupt criminal who should be behind bars. I’m disgusted by his actions, and I’m disgusted by the people in the state who looked beyond his crimes to re-elect him. I’m ashamed to be from Texas, and I’m grateful I escaped 20 years ago. How can we help others get out of TX if needed?
Same!
And since what he wants is to force boys to grow up with breasts and periods and to force girls to grow up with beards and deep voices -- he is the child abuser!
42 U.S.C. § 1983, 18 U.S.C. § 241, & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecution should be in his future, and it should be a Dem plank to make it so!
Where is HIPAA in all of this? What happened to therapist/client privilege?
Sadly, I have relatives in TX who have family reunions during Thanksgiving every couple years. I've sadly informed them that I will no longer go to their state for these since, even as an adult, my very existence is now considered illegal there.
Two points: First, HIPAA protects the client's information, not the therapist. Second, therapist/client privilege can be interpreted not to exist under this interpretation (that's the argument the state will make) because as mandatory reporters, therapists are required to break confidentiality to report child abuse - which they have now defined basically existing as transgender as. If they don't, they could lose their license. It's incredibly fucked up. It will cause many therapists to stop seeing transgender children, others to leave the state, and an overall drop in quality of care among providers who remain.
Ugh, you're right. By classifying it as 'child abuse' in statute, they dissolve existing protections because therapists are 'mandatory reporters'. Motherflowers!!
And for a smile, I'm remembering the StarTrek NG episode where Ryker fell in love with a woman from a planet where cis-het people were the ones labeled 'deviant'.
I'm going to run for Attorney General and declare that raising a child as a Republican is child abuse. I think it makes more sense than raising a trans child is abuse.
But they can’t make these cases against therapists without also disclosing the patients’ information, and the entire basis for the disclosure in these cases would be for the bad faith reason of transphobia. Without cause, these are still unjustified disclosures of patient information violating HIPAA all the same even if they play semantic games with the wording of their laws. And in other recent instances, the rightwingers have outright ignored HIPAA
The right has already violated HIPAA numerous times in the age of trans panic. They think nothing of privacy when it comes to trans people. States like Florida a few years ago required colleges to turn over documents related to GAC for people who got it through college insurance plans (iow, all or mostly adults’ healthcare records). Most or all schools complied. This of course was before Florida proceeded to make GAC virtually inaccessible for anyone in the state. Glad I left Florida before transitioning! But like you, I have a broken heart over not feeling safe to visit home. Hope all this ends soon!
Texas we’re counting on you tomorrow and this fall to shut down this adulterous pig and all his creepy child-obsessed maggot friends
Pray these people go away soon.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is not protecting children. He is using the power of the state to punish them. His interpretation of SB 14 and related Texas laws is not law enforcement — it is political persecution dressed up as public policy.
This is what government overreach looks like: politicians overriding doctors, ideology replacing science, and fear being used as a weapon against families who are simply trying to care for their children.
Doctors are threatened for practicing medicine.
Parents are treated like criminals for loving their kids.
Transgender young people are told by their own government that their existence is a problem to be eliminated.
That is not protection.
That is cruelty.
Let us be clear about the reality Paxton wants to hide: gender-affirming care is supported by medical professionals across the world because it saves lives.
Yet instead of listening to physicians, psychologists, and families, Texas leadership has chosen scapegoating over compassion and propaganda over evidence.
This campaign is designed to intimidate — to make providers afraid, to isolate families, and to push transgender Texans out of public life entirely. It is an attempt to govern through fear.
And we refuse to accept it.
Government does not own our bodies.
Politicians do not control our identities.
And no attorney general has the moral authority to decide which children deserve care and which do not.
History teaches us that injustice rarely announces itself as injustice. It claims to be protection.
It claims to be tradition. It claims to be necessary.
But history also teaches us something else: when people stand together and refuse to be silent, oppression fails.
We stand with transgender Texans.
We stand with the doctors who refuse to abandon their oath.
We stand with parents who will not stop fighting for their children.
And we say to Ken Paxton and anyone who would weaponize the law against vulnerable people: your intimidation will not erase this community, your policies will not silence truth, and your misuse of power will be challenged everywhere — in the courts, in the streets, and at the ballot box.
Because dignity is not negotiable.
Healthcare is not a political bargaining chip.
And human rights do not disappear because a politician decides they are inconvenient.
The message today is simple:
We see what is happening.
We will not look away.
And we will not stop until every Texan is treated with equal dignity under the law.
And let this be the warning carried beyond this moment: no government that rules through fear lasts forever. Laws built on exclusion crumble under the weight of courage, and every attempt to silence a community only strengthens its resolve. The voices rising today — from families, from doctors, from allies, from transgender Texans themselves — will not fade when the microphones turn off. They will grow louder, stronger, and more unstoppable until justice replaces cruelty and equality is no longer debated but guaranteed. We are not asking for dignity. We are claiming it — together, openly, and without apology.
TEAXANS MUST VOTE HIM OUT - YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS
Exactly. Gender affirming care is LIFE SAVING CARE, and we have AMPLE scientific evidence proving this. Yet as you say, ideology has replaced science in the Republican Party, which has MANdated that demonizing trans people is to be national policy. Because the GOP has gone FULL FASCIST, and fascists ALWAYS attack sexual minorities and marginalized populations first. They want EVERYONE to fit into tiny little boxes of THEIR making, and if you refuse, you WILL be eliminated.
We've seen this story before. It does not end well.
That is way we must always stand up push back and not just lay down and accept
He is a truly evil person. And yes he is the one abusing children. Shame on him.
Do you suppose he ever questions himself? I do it all the time. That's how I know I'm doing good things in my life because I often wonder about that and I often reevaluate my actions and change my actions if I can do better. I think that's a big part of the difference between us and them.
Proving once again it was never about sports.
Ken Paxton isn’t sane. He lives in a religious fantasy world of his own making to justify his bigotry against trans people. The bigotry is a means to an end for Mr. Paxton. His real goal is satisfying a lust for power.
Paxton, another repugnant that protects pedos gonna school us on child abuse. Give me a break.
Love the picture of him you used.
Real talk - why can he have a medical opinion? Why is he dictating how people get behavioral health care?
#FKP #FDT
He’s a disgusting person who should be in jail, a wannabe. It is not law, just an opinion. But the Board asked for this opinion, which I’m curious to know why. As an LCSW-S gender affirming therapist in Texas, I will be watching why the board asked for this opinion. 🤬😡🤬😡
What happened to the first amendment? Last week Kansas now This. As a trans woman I am terrified
"...in no world should Texans’ tax dollars be used to permanently harm children..." Apparently, paxton has no moral qualms about how his support of the orange turd has resulted in Texans' tax dollars being used for precisely that.
They’re going to have blood on their hands for this. Suicide rates will increase. This is disgusting and evil.