In a new opinion released Friday, Texas AG Ken Paxton has effectively prohibited therapists from treating trans kids—unless they try to convert them.
In a new opinion released Friday, Texas AG Ken Paxton has effectively prohibited therapists from treating trans kids—unless they try to convert them.
Ok this is horrible and all, but also why is the attorney general basically the dictator of Texas? He keeps announcing wild stretches of laws with vicious punishment and for some reason nobody seems able to stop him
He has no opposition. The governor and LT governor (texas is weird about governors) are both close allies, and the republican party has had a stranglehold on state level politics for decades at this point.
What he is really doing here is threatening to sue if people don’t fall in line. If someone actually fights him in court they might win, but the vast majority of people are not ready and willing to start a legal battle with the state.