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"No child is capable of giving informed consent to body-destroying and life-altering 'transgender' hormones or surgeries, and no court with good sense would allow a parent to make that decision for the child," Burch told Austin News. "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is correct--it is child abuse."

Just the News reported that in 2022, "Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to investigate parents who allow their children to have transgender surgeries or hormone blockers," and last week an appeals court in Texas "upheld an injunction by a lower court that prevents the state from investigating parents who allow their children under 18 to receive 'gender-affirming care.'"

The case was brought to court by the radical left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU applauded the Texas judge's decision. The child was 16 years old when the parents allowed the child to take hormones that are given to alter the bodies natural development during the teenage years.

In March, Just the News reported that members of the pro-transgender World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) admitted "that some young patients...developed life-threatening medical conditions or even died after years of treatment." 

The WPATH internal discussions confirmed that "transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical," Journalist Michael Shellenberger posted in an X thread. Just the News listed several examples of medical damage done to patients after they received "gender-affirming care.”

Two examples were given: A 16-year old girl developed two liver masses after receiving a menstrual-suppression drug and testosterone; and a woman died of liver cancer after a decade of taking testosterone.

Madison, Wisconsin-based Catholic Vote is an advocacy organization that wants to “inspire every Catholic in America to live out the truths of our faith in public life,” according to the group’s website. Founded in 2008, its president is Brian Burch.