The judge ruled that the state child welfare agency’s new rule prompting the...
J.J. Holsinger, 12, leans against Bex Holsinger as they listen to speakers during a rally for transgender rights held outside the Texas Governors Mansion in Austin, Texas, on March 13, 2022. LGBTQ+ advocates the rally to protest Gov. Greg Abbott's directive allowing the state's child welfare agency to investigate parents who allow their transgender children to receive gender-affirming care as child abusers.
Like another Travis County judge who granted a temporary restraining order that blocked the investigations Within an hour after the district court's ruling, Texas had already filed an appeal, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said. The attorney general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There have been 11 investigations of parents of Texas transgender youth, testified Marta Talbert, a director of the state’s Child Protective Investigations unit who was called as a witness by state lawyers. Talbert said five have been closed and two are close to being closed. The family was later reported to the state for possible child abuse by staff at the psychiatric facility where the boy spent nine days after being discharged from the hospital. An investigator came knocking on their door two days after they returned home.
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