Our statement on today’s appeals court ruling in PFLAG v Abbott

Today’s ruling by the Third Court of Appeals is a tremendous relief for our family and for the thousands of families like ours across Texas. Here is our statement:

I’m the mom of a trans kid in Texas. Stop asking me why we don’t move to a “safer” state.

Raising a kid is hard work. Raising a trans kid in Texas is even harder. And yet I grimace when people ask me, “Why don’t you just move?” The better question is, “Why don’t you just help?”

Yes, Texas is investigating parents of trans kids. We are two of them.

Texas DFPS has an active investigation open against my family, has already interrogated us in our home, and is now threatening to remove our kids from their loving family. The reason? We are parents of a transgender child. Here is our story: