All investigations into families with transgender children are temporarily halted in Texas. Some more unsavory facts about how CPS is operating are coming to light, making this look even worse than we initially suspected.
Driving the news: A supervisor for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services testified on Friday that investigators were required to prioritize cases involving parents of transgender children but were prohibited from closing them if they determined that the case likely did not involve child abuse, according to media reports of video footage from a state district court hearing.
What she’s saying: The agency’s approach to reports of parents seeking gender-affirming care for their children was different from other cases, the supervisor, Randa Mulanax, testified on Friday before Meachum, the Texas Tribune reports.
Investigators were told to look into such cases without exception and not to document anything about the cases in writing, she testified.
They could not give these cases “priority none status,” which occurs when the agency concludes that a report is unlikely to reflect a case of child abuse, according to Mulanax, who said she says she will resign from the agency.
“I’ve always felt that, at the end of the day, the department had children’s best interest at heart,” she added. “I no longer feel that way.”