NEW: In a March 11 hearing, a Texas judge issued an order temporarily barring the state from investigating gender-affirming care for transgender youth as child abuse.
The ruling comes the same day that dozens of major companies — including Apple, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Meta and Microsoft — criticized the Texas directive in a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News.'Just Wonderful People': Woman In Arizona Helps Dallas Native Reunite With His Class Ring After 57 Years
District Judge Amy Clark Meachum heard Friday from attorneys for the state and the parents of a 16-year-old girl who were being investigated by the Department of Family and Protective Services over such care.
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