Texas AG declares healthcare to trans kids as child abuse

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton outside the Supreme Court on Nov. 1, 2021. (Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an opinion Monday that providing gender-affirming medical care to minors is considered child abuse under state law. 

Medical care such as puberty blockers, which temporarily pause puberty, hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgeries…