AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas district court judge on Friday temporarily halted all child abuse investigations into gender-affirming care for trans minors, after a daylong hearing that pitted the mother of a transgender teenager against the state’s lawyers.
District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum read the temporary injunction from the bench late in the afternoon. She said the injunction blocks the state from investigating anyone solely for assisting or providing gender-affirming care to transgender minors until the end of a trial in the case.
The state can appeal the injunction. A trial is set to begin in July.
