DALLAS — A judge will consider whether to block Texas’ new directive defining certain care for transgender youth as child abuse, after an appeals court sided with the family of a trans teen who sued over the policy.
A three-judge panel of the Third Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to stop a temporary restraining order on the abuse directive, ruling the state cannot appeal at this time.
The decision means two things: a temporary block on the abuse directive that pertains just to the plaintiffs in this case, which include a state employee and their 16-year-old transgender child, is in place; and a previously delayed hearing scheduled for Friday to consider expanding the block statewide is back on track.
