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AUSTIN — Three extra households with transgender children are suing to dam abuse investigations the state has opened against them, including to the litigation Texas faces after deeming sure gender-affirming medical therapies child abuse earlier this 12 months.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Travis County, asks the court docket to dam these investigations and any others into households with transgender children who’re members of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG.
Adam and Amber Briggle, who’ve a transgender son and have been one of the few households to publicly touch upon the investigation into their household, are events to the swimsuit, as are Mirabel Voe and Wanda Roe, dad and mom of two different transgender minors.
The lawsuit is being led by Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Texas and PFLAG.
“Loving and affirming your child and empowering them to be themselves is the highest calling of any parent, no matter your child’s gender,” Brian Ok. Bond, Executive Director of PFLAG National, stated in an announcement. “If it takes a court ruling to ensure that the law protects families who lead with love in support of transgender Texans, so be it.”
This is the second lawsuit focusing on the state’s February choice to start investigating sure gender-affirming medical therapies as child abuse.
Lambda Legal and the ACLU filed the primary on behalf of one household again in March, weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Department of Family and Protective Services to undertake such investigations. Last month, the Texas Supreme Court briefly halted the investigation into that household whereas the litigation is ongoing.
The court docket additionally dominated that the governor didn’t have the authority to pressure DFPS to proceed the handful of different probes it had opened into households with transgender children.
With the ability again in its palms, DFPS nonetheless restarted these investigations. The lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to halt at the very least three of them.