A Texas Judge has issued a temporary halt to a Texas Child and Protective Services investigation of parents who are allowing their teenage transgendered daughter to receive gender transition therapies, such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
Texas judge temporarily blocks investigation of trans teen’s parents
From rssfeeds.usatoday.com
2022-03-03 15:56:11
USA TODAY
Excerpt:
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday that for child abuse because they provided gender-affirming medical care to their teenage daughter.
The order by District Judge Amy Clark Meachum also set a March 11 hearing on whether to grant a wider-ranging injunction barring the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from following Gov. Greg Abbott’s Feb. 23 directive to treat gender-affirming care for minors as child abuse.
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Texas, ACLU Women’s Rights Project and Lambda Legal, a national LGBTQ civil rights group, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Abbott and the Department of Family and Protective Services and its commissioner Jaime Masters over investigations launched into parents of transgender minors immediately following the governor’s directive.
Lawyers from two national civil rights organizations…
