.rossramsey: 'Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are turning the law-and-order Republican Party into a gang of bullies, targeting transgender kids — and the parents who support them — with their decision to treat gender-affirming health care as child abuse.'
That health care is legal under Texas law, but this is election season. Cynics who think politicians will say anything to get reelected have a new, sparkling piece of evidence.
Other people caught doing what the governor and attorney general are doing — Texas public school students, for instance — risk breaking the law.
Substitute “elected officials” for the first instance of “students,” and it’s evident what’s going on here.
Lucky for them, Abbott and Paxton and others like them aren’t students who can be prosecuted under that part of the education laws approved by their government. The gist of that law, however, is crystal clear, and so is the effect of their actions and rhetoric.
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