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Morgan Davis is an investigator for Texas' Department of Family and Protective Services.

He says, part of his job is to make sure that the children living in the homes he

investigates feel like someone is watching out for them. Just to have a friendly face

walking in the home and saying, I see you're loved, you are respected, and you have

done nothing wrong for any child. Morgan is a transgender man. He says he wanted to work

for a child welfare agency so that he could be the kind of advocate he never had when he

was growing up. If you look different or you feel different, and for myself, I've always

looked like a little boy, although I was born in a gender or female. I always looked

like a little boy. And so, oftentimes, there will be bullying. You oftentimes feel isolated

or scared, and to have an adult be able to look you in the face and say, I see you're

going to be okay. I got you. It would have been the world.

In February, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a new directive, ordering Morgan's agency

to investigate the homes of children whose doctors have prescribed medical treatments

that trans advocates describe as gender-affirming care. Governor Abbott described these treatments,

including ones that can be reversed, as sex change procedures, and he categorized them

as a form of child abuse. This new directive followed a proposed Texas

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