BREAKING: Texas judge blocks investigations into parents of trans children
District Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's directive to compel the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate.
The lawsuit marked the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s directive and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton labeling certain gender-confirming treatments as "child abuse." A Child Protective Services supervisor testified Friday that she has resigned from the department because of concerns about the directive and said cases involving gender-confirming care were being treated differently than others.
"The state's case is there's some uncertainty as to the medical science and at least they quote some authorities that say some of this treatment is unnecessary perhaps in the long term may not be very beneficial and harmful to children," Carpenter said."Today, unfortunately, we have to gather here once again as the witch hunt for parents of trans kids continues in this state," said Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas.
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