A custody case over a trans child in Texas has sparked a debate about transgender children. But according to experts, it's the trans kids who are most likely to be hurt by the right-wing outcry
Judge Cooks’ ruling is notable because it came just a few days after a jury previously ruled 11-1 in favor of Georgulas, granting her sole custody. The jury’s ruling had struck a nerve among conservatives, many of whom have spent months rallying in support of Younger. Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz“horrifying and tragic,” adding, “For a parent to subject such a young child to life-altering hormone blockers to medically transition their sex is nothing less than child abuse.
Texas legislators also responded with outrage. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that the Texas Attorney General’s office and the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services would be launching an investigation into the case, including probing claims of “possible child abuse” against the child.
in the interest of anyone in this case and in particular the kid for anyone, including me and including national politicians, to be inserting themselves into a private family matter.” Yet she expressed outrage at the coverage of the case and the right-wing political establishment’s response to it, as well as right-wing media’s promotion of misconceptions surrounding transgender youth health care.
“The only reason this case is so high profile is thanks to an entire universe of websites and bloggers spreading disinformation about who trans people are, and what it means to affirm and love a trans child, and what trans healthcare entails,” she says. “I think it’s been a growing problem bubbling just beneath the surface of mainstream political discourse and it is deeply unfortunate that it has surfaced in this way.
Chief among these misconceptions is the suggestion, promoted in court by Younger himself, that Georgulas pushed for the child to undergo medical transition, a term used to describe medical interventions such as hormone suppression, puberty blockers, and transgender reassignment surgery. In right-wing media, and on Younger’s blog, the term “chemical castration” was used to describe such interventions, even though this term is inaccurate and the effects of hormone suppression are reversible.
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