A Texas judge held a hearing on whether to prevent state officials from investigating reports of transgender youth receiving gender-confirming care as child abuse.
The hearing came 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.
Meachum last week blocked the investigation and is considering whether to block similar investigations of other families. The parents sued over the investigation and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's directive that DFPS investigate reports of transgender youth receiving gender-confirming care as child abuse.
ABC13's Courtney Carpenter spoke to the parent of a local transgender child who says these past couple of weeks have been extremely difficult since the directive was issued. During the hearing, a CPS worker testified that she resigned due to her disagreeing with the directive, saying she feels it is unethical.
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