A Texas judge has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to halt all investigations into the families of transgender children if they are members of the LGBT advocacy nonprofit PFLAG.
On Friday afternoon, Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum granted a temporary injunction requested by several families who sued the Department of Family and Protective Services for initiating child abuse investigations into whether their minor children were receiving certain kinds of gender-affirming health care.
In early July the judge halted the probes into the families who sued. But she had not decided whether to expand the order to all families who are members of PFLAG, a nationwide organization of parents, families and allies of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people.
