Some child welfare workers in Texas say they’re quitting over a new directive that allows abuse investigations into parents of transgender kids.
FILE - Demonstrators gather on the steps to the State Capitol to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House, May 20, 2021 in Austin, Texas. No texts or emails that leave paper trails. Unusually close oversight. Texas child welfare workers who have quit over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's first-of-its-kind directive in the U.S.
The court fight in Texas comes as Republicans across the country are leaning into policies aimed at transgender Americans,. But Texas is the only state where a GOP governor has greenlighted abuse cases against the parents of transgender children, which several current and departing Texas child welfare workers say was rushed into action and has sunk already low morale at their troubled state agency even deeper.
“We’re being so closely monitored on those type of cases that you wouldn’t be able to just say, ‘Oh, nothing to see,’" said Shelby McCowen, a child welfare investigator who called the directive the ‘last straw’ and is quitting after less than a year at the agency.Texas completed more than 157,000 child welfare investigations in the last fiscal year, according to state data.
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