Friday’s ruling halts the company from investigating two families with transgender children.
TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — On Friday, a Travis County decide granted a second injunction in opposition to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).
The injunction bars the division from implementing the company’s rule investigating families that present gender-affirming care to their children as youngster abuse. Friday’s ruling halts the company from investigating two extra families with transgender children.
The court remains to be contemplating a request for extra aid to guard Texas PFLAG members with transgender children. It’s all a part of a lawsuit filed on behalf of PFLAG, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, by a number of authorized teams together with Lambda Legal, the ACLU and a number of other others.
“We are gratified that the Court reiterated that the DFPS rule is unlawful and changed the status quo for Texas transgender youth and their families. The Court recognized yet again that being subjected to an unlawful and unwarranted investigation causes irreparable harm for these families who are doing nothing more than caring for and affirming their children and seeking the best course of care for them in consultation with their medical providers. We are confident that the Court will continue to recognize those harms as it considers the injunction we have requested for PFLAG families, including the Briggles,” an announcement from the authorized teams learn.
This ruling is simply the newest in a sequence of lawsuits in search of to finish investigations into families offering gender-affirming care to transgender children after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the DFPS to analyze these families for youngster abuse again in February.
In June, a Travis County decide issued a short lived restraining order that stopped the state from investigating mother and father as a part of one other lawsuit.
The Briggle household has been on the entrance of the lawsuits filed and was beforehand underneath investigation by DFPS for offering gender-affirming healthcare to their 14-year-old transgender son.
The ACLU and Lambda Legal have been working to dam investigations into all mother and father of transgender children who’re a part of PFLAG.
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