Texas Judge Blocks Investigations Of 2 Trans Youth Families

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

July 9, 2022

A Texas judge issued an order Friday to continue blocking the state from investigating two families of transgender youth who have received gender-affirming medical care and said she was considering whether to prevent additional investigations.

The ruling extends in part a temporary order issued last month blocking investigations against three families who sued and preventing any similar investigations against members of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG Inc. The group has more than 600 members in Texas.

In her order Friday, Judge Amy Clark Meachum said she was still weighing whether to issue a similar order prohibiting similar investigations against the third family and PFLAG members. An order preventing those investigations had been set to expire Friday. An attorney last month said the family of the third family had learned after the lawsuit's filing that the state had dropped its investigation into them.

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