“Texas legislators have been trying to erase trans kids and harm them and break the hearts of loving parents like me for years. And they’re finally doing it.”

Amber Briggle, a Texas resident and the mother of a transgender son. Briggle is under investigation after Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion this year claiming that gender-affirming treatments for transgender children constitutes child abuse. In 2016, Briggle invited Paxton to dinner to “put a human face” to the struggle for transgender rights and has felt that she has been a target ever since. (Texas Standard — March 9, 2022)