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Texas Governor Greg Abbott instructed his Department of Family and Protective Services to “conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of any reported instances of these abusive procedures in the State of Texas.”
The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit asking for a temporary restraining order to prevent the state of Texas from performing a child abuse investigation of a family that is seeking gender-affirming health care for their transgender child. A district court judge granted the temporary restraining order yesterday.
The child’s mother is an employee of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and she had been suspended from her job following last week’s legal opinion by the Texas Attorney General which said that saying gender-affirming treatments and procedures for transgender children can constitute a form of child abuse.
The district court judge Amy Clark Meachum wrote that the family that is the plaintiffs in the lawsuit “will suffer irreparable injury” unless the defendants – representing Texas’ governor and the DFPS Commissioner – are restrained from investigating families of transgender children.