The Texas Supreme Court ruled that investigations can resume into parents seeking gender-affirming care for their transgender kids.
In February, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to investigate parents and doctors who approve and provide gender-affirming medical treatments.
The development lifts an earlier injunction against Abbott’s controversial order.
As NPR reports:
The ruling overturns a lower court’s injunction from March 11, barring state officials from pursuing Abbott’s Feb. 22. directive that instructed the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate “any reported instances” of a range of treatments and procedures, including the administration of hormones and puberty-blocking drugs.
The parents of a transgender teen sued to stop the investigations, and in early March, District Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary order halting an investigation into the parents of the 16-year-old girl. Meachum later issued another order at the statewide level, temporarily blocking all such investigations stemming from Abbott’s directive.
A Texas appeals court later upheld that injunction, but today’s action by the state’s highest court has lifted Meachum’s statewide order.
Though today’s ruling was unanimous, the high court raised questions about what prompted the investigations, given that Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) isn’t bound to the governor or attorney general’s commands.
“The Governor and the Attorney General were certainly well within their rights to state their legal and policy views on this topic, but DFPS was not compelled by law to follow them,” the ruling read.
The Texas Tribune adds:
DFPS employees have told The Texas Tribune that agency leadership has acknowledged that these investigations do not meet the current requirements for child abuse and have said policy would need to be generated to match the governor’s directives.
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It’s either xx or xy. No in between. Got it now looney toons left?
Are you wanting us, what did they used to call us? Oh yeah, DEPLORABLES, to believe there are that many mentally disturbed children in the US? The communist could not have groomed that many children.when you don’t kill them in the womb, you attempt to kill them through STARVATION. Finally as if that’s not enough, you completely screw them up mentally. Where does it end?
Hmmmmm
What caused all of this confusion?
Could it be, non traditional, “family values” and dynamics?
Look at the wild and evolution for your answer. Nature is perfect. Man is flawed.
The devolution of the family unit is part of the Globalist/Socialist insurrection of America.