When Texas Went After Transgender Care, Part 2

<p>In Texas, a heated political battle is taking place over care provided to young transgender people, with Gov. Greg Abbott taking a leading role.</p><p>The story of this confrontation began, improbably, with the contentious divorce of a suburban couple from Dallas, and a nasty custody battle over their daughter.</p><p>We look at how a domestic dispute precipitated one of the fiercest political clashes in the country, and return to yesterday’s story about a trans teenager, Grayson, and his mother to explore the impact of this clash.</p><p>Guests: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/j-david-goodman">J. David Goodman</a>, The New York Times’s Houston bureau chief, covering Texas; and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/azeen-ghorayshi">Azeen Ghorayshi</a>, a reporter covering the intersection between sex, gender and science for The Times.</p><p>Want more from The Daily? For one big idea on the news each week from our team, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>How a custody battle in the Dallas suburbs<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/us/texas-transgender-youth-medical-care-abuse.html"> amplified a growing conservative cause</a> and helped fuel a move to treat transgender medicine as abuse.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>