As a Portland State University professor, I am obligated to report suspected child abuse. This obligation is not limited to my reporting abuse occurring within Oregon’s boundaries. Therefore, I am publicly reporting my suspicion that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is actively engaged in the abuse of, at a conservative estimate, more than 44,000 transgender Texas minors. Gov. Abbott is literally threatening the lives of Texas’ transgender minors by threatening supportive parents of transgender children and professionals who provide gender-affirming care for transgender children (“Large children’s hospital stops gender-affirming treatments due to ‘potential criminal legal ramifications’,” March 6).
I call on the state of Oregon, and all people not motivated by needless cruelty, rank bigotry toward transgender people and puerile political expedience during election season, to level every legal recourse in their power toward stopping Texas’ Head of State Child Abuse. Texas voters, you are welcome to step up here too.
Alexis Dinno, Portland
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