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EPISODE · Oct 14, 2022 · 35 MIN

Investigating families of trans kids gets personal

from Post Reports · host The Washington Post

After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered child abuse investigations of the parents of transgender children, Morgan Davis – a trans man with Child Protective Services in Austin – was assigned two cases. They didn’t go as planned.Read more:Morgan Davis used to believe that his workplace – the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services – had a noble mission: to remove children from abusive situations.But when he was asked to comply with a new mandate from Gov. Greg Abbott – one that required his office to “conduct a prompt and thorough investigation” of families with transgender children – that changed.As a trans man with the support of his small team, he thought he could comfort the flagged families and close investigations quickly. “I was told that I would go into the home, I would assess it, I would come out, and we would be done.”But that’s not what happened. Casey Parks reports.

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When Texas’s governor directed state agencies to investigate gender-affirming care as “child abuse,” investigators on the ground had to carry that mandate out. Today on “Post Reports,” what happens when one of those investigators is trans himself?

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