Texas ruling latest against state’s effort to label gender-affirming care as child abuse
A Texas judge issued an order Friday to continue blocking the state from investigating two families of transgender youth who have received gender affirming medical care and said she was considering whether to prevent additional investigations.
The two families to whom Friday’s order applies would “suffer probable, imminent, and irreparable injury in the interim” without the order, Meachum wrote.The Texas Supreme Court in May allowed the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse while also ruling in favour of one family that was among the first contacted by child welfare officials following order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
The families had talked in court filings about the anxiety that the investigations created for them and their children. The mother of one of the teens said her son attempted suicide and was hospitalized the day Abbott issued his directive. The outpatient psychiatric facility where the teen was referred reported the family for child abuse after learning he had been prescribed hormone therapy, she said in a court filing.
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