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1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

Texas AG Paxton Declares Thera...

Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse

The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.

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@erininthemorning.com In other news, the immanent shortage of licensed therapists in Texas has driven up therapy costs beyond the reach of almost all insurance plans.

Coincidentally, therapy costs in New Mexico are falling due to the influx of new therapists unexpectedly relocating from Texas.

Ha ha - all fiction. I was telling what happened to ObGyn care in Idaho after they passed all of their anti-abortion idiocy, and how that's led to even rural hospitals in Washington getting affordable maternity care from being able to hire staff that fled Idaho.