Judge Jan Soifer found 'sufficient reason to believe that the plaintiffs will suffer immediate and irreparable injury' if the investigations were allowed to proceed.
A Texas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received, a new obstacle to the state labeling such treatments as child abuse.
"I do find that there is sufficient reason to believe that the plaintiffs will suffer immediate and irreparable injury if the commissioner and the are allowed to continue to implement and enforce this new Department rule that equates gender affirming care with child abuse," Soifer said at the end of a roughly 40-minute hearing.
Spokespeople for Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday afternoon. The families had talked in court filings about the anxiety that the investigations had created for them and their children. The mother of one of the teens said her son attempted suicide and was hospitalized the day Abbott issued his directive. The outpatient psychiatric facility where the teen was referred reported the family for child abuse after learning he had been prescribed hormone therapy, she said in a court filing.
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