Founder of state-contracted child abuse shelter hopes to reopen after employee was accused of exploiting two girls

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Texas once again temporarily blocked from investigating gender-affirming care as child abuse

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Texas child welfare official resigns, saying top agency leaders scapegoated employees

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After accepting her trans son’s hard-fought identity, a Texas mother is being investigated for child abuse

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Texas CPS department’s culture kept worries about now-shuttered foster care facility from being addressed, official says

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Beto O’Rourke blasts Greg Abbott for latest foster care abuse allegations

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State-licensed shelter where sex trafficking victims were reportedly abused ordered to close

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Texas’ child welfare agency has been in crisis for years. Now it must lead the charge against trans kids’ families.

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Foster girls who’d been victims of sex trafficking endured fresh abuse at a state shelter, report says

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Houston hospital pauses hormone therapy for transgender children as threats of child abuse investigations loom

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