The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that gender transition procedures can be investigated as child abuse.

The decision to investigate won't come from the governor or the attorney general.

It is the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services that makes decisions about when investigations are opened

and whether they're continued and not any political agency.

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In February, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed family protective agencies to begin investigating child gender transition treatments as child abuse.

Last week, the Texas State Supreme Court ruled that those investigations may continue, but they won't be compulsory.

Here to give us the details is Daily Wires Charlotte Pens Bond. So Charlotte, this has been a red hot culture war issue and it sounds like the courts are now weighing in. What's the latest news?

Right, so this goes back to February when Republican Governor Greg Abbott wrote a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in which he said the office of the attorney general will now consider so-called sex change procedures on minors to be child abuse under existing Texas law.

So basically because the Department of Family and Protective Services is responsible for protecting children from abuse, the governor's letter was a directive for them to investigate any reported instances of these procedures in the state of Texas.

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