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Fresh from the release of their debut book None Of The Above and touring with Jonathan Van Ness across Australia and New Zealand, Travis Alabanza’s newest theatre offering Sound Of The Underground spotlights London’s iconic underground queer club and nightlife culture. 

Dallas County Democratic Party Chair Kristy Noble speaks at an Election Night gathering (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)

While most of the attention has been on which LGBTQ candidates won their races for seats in the Texas House and which ones, nationwide, were elected or reelected to Congress, The LGBTQ Victory Fund backed 13 more openly-LGBTQ candidates here in Texas. And all 13 of those candidates, save one, were victorious.

A Texas judge Friday expanded her injunction against child abuse investigations of transgender-supportive families to include all families who are members of PFLAG.Travis County Judge Amy Clark Meachum had already granted an injunction blocking investigations of two of the families who sued, identified by pseudonyms as the Roes and the Voes, while their case, PFLAG v. Abbott, is heard.

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a directive in February targeting trans youth and their families with child abuse investigations.

A Travis County District Court entered a second injunction today (Friday, July 8) against the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and Commissioner Masters, barring them from implementing the agency’s rule expanding the definition of child abuse to presumptively treat the provision of gender affirming care as child abuse against two more families: Mirabel Voe and her son Antonio and Wanda Roe and her son Tommy, according to a press release for the ACLU of Texas.

A Texas judge has blocked the state’s harmful “child abuse” investigations into parents of trans youth.

Once again, a Travis County District Court has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from investigating families who are supporting their transgender children with medically necessary health care.

Earlier this week, the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, and the ACLU of Texas, along with Texas-based law firm Baker Botts LLP filed the suit on behalf of PFLAG National.The Travis County District Court’s ruling will stop the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating the parents involved in the suit, according to a news release from the organizations. For those families, if they are contacted by the agency, they will only need to provide information on their PFLAG membership.

Pictured: Adam and Amber Briggle with their son MaxAnother lawsuit has been filed in hopes of stopping the investigations of transgender-supportive families in Texas.Adam and Amber Briggle, parents of a trans son, two other families identified by pseudonyms, and PFLAG filed the suit Wednesday in the District Court of Travis County, Texas. The pseudonymous families include one in which a trans teen attempted suicide as a result of Gov.

HOUSTON — The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that investigations of parents with transgender children for possible child abuse could continue, after an emergency appeal by state officials including Gov. Greg Abbott. The ruling reversed an appeals court decision that had temporarily halted the inquiries statewide.

Wilson Chapman editorThis year, DC Comics is celebrating Pride Month with a bang.On May 31, the company will launch “DC Pride 2022,” a 104-page anthology comic featuring stories from LGBTQ creators and focusing on queer characters from the DC universe. The comic will open with an introduction from Nicole Maines, the transgender rights activist and actor who portrayed Nia Nal on “Supergirl” in 2018, becoming the first trans actor to play a superhero on television.

The Texas Tribune reports.In late February, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a nonbinding opinion that allowing children access to gender-affirming care is child abuse. Abbott followed that by ordering the DFPS to investigate parents who let their kids receive such care. The investigations have been temporarily blocked by a judge while a lawsuit against Abbott’s order is heard, but state officials have been fighting to restart them.Morgan Davis, a trans man who works for the DFPS in Travis County, was tasked with one of the first investigations under Abbott’s order.

“Distraught over orders to investigate trans kids’ families, Texas child welfare workers are resigning” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThomas Dekker has been acting since he was six years old. Now 34, he’s best known for playing Zach on “Heroes” and John Connor on the short-lived “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”But the spotlight unexpectedly became much brighter in 2017 when former “Heroes” co-executive producer and writer Bryan Fuller outed Dekker during a speech at Outfest.

Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas, speaks at a rally protesting Gov. Greg Abbott’s anti-trans directive to DFPS. (Erich Schlegel/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

Dr. Ximena Lopez

In a small step for LGBTQ+ rights in Texas, investigations into gender-affirming care for trans youth have been temporarily banned. 

Judge Amy Clark Meachum

HOUSTON — Child abuse investigators in Texas have been told to prioritize cases involving the parents of transgender children and to investigate them without exception, after the state’s governor ordered certain medical care to be treated as abuse, an investigations supervisor said during a court hearing on Friday. The supervisor, Randa Mulanax of the Department of Family and Protective Services, testified that the agency was not given the freedom to determine that a given report involving a transgender child was likely not in fact a case of child abuse — so-called “priority none” status — and that investigators were not able to close the cases. “I’ve been told about that directly,” said Ms.

Emmett Schelling, TENT executive director, speaks outside the Travis County courthouse where a hearing was held to stop investigations targeting supportive families of transgender children, on March 2. (Erich Schlegel/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)

In the latest blow to the health and well-being of transgender children in Texas, Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston has stopped providing hormone therapy to trans children in the wake of Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive ordering the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families and health-care professionals who provide such gender-affirming therapy for children, claiming that such care is child abuse.

While Equality Texas and Lambda Legal wait for a ruling from Judge Amy Meachum in Travis County’s 201st District Court on the restraining order the organizations asked for in their lawsuit filed today (Wednesday, March 2) against Gov. Greg Abbott’s and his directive to the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the families of transgender youth for abuse, Judge Madeleine Connor in Travis County’s 353rd District court has granted a temporary restraining order blocking DFPS from investigating the plaintiffs in the lawsuit ACLU of Texas, ACLU and Lambda Legal filed on Tuesday, March 1.

directive from Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordering the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents of transgender children based on the presumption that they are allowing their children to receive gender-affirming medical care.Abbott issued the directive, which he justified by citing an opinion issued last week by Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) that stated that all forms of surgical and hormonal interventions for transitioning youth constitute “child abuse” because the medical treatments for gender dysphoria can cause “sterilization” and thereby violate a child’s fundamental right to procreation.But five district attorneys signed an open letter calling Abbott’s order “un-American” and an “egregious invasion of privacy.”“We are deeply disturbed by GovernorAbbott and Attorney General Paxton’s cruel directives treating transgender children’s access to life-saving, gender-affirming care as ‘child abuse,'” the letter, dated Feb.

Child Protective Services has been showing up at the doors of parents with trans children. Equality Texas, Lambda Legal and the ACLU have filed for a temporary restraining order in district court in Travis County.

begin investigating parents in these cases, noting that Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a legal opinion terming such care “child abuse.” The move has drawn outrage from parents of transgender children, activists, businesses, and celebrities. Texas legislators last year considered a bill to this effect, but it failed to pass.

begin investigating parents in these cases, noting that Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a legal opinion terming such care “child abuse.” The move has drawn outrage from parents of transgender children, activists, businesses, and celebrities. Texas legislators last year considered a bill to this effect, but it failed to pass.

Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and Attorney General Ken Paxton

Several Texas prosecutors have said they will refuse to follow Gov. Greg Abbott’s demand they investigate parents of trans children.Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee said in a statement he would not abide Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s direction to the Department of Family and Protection Services to investigate parents for child abuse if they let their trans children access gender-affirmative medical care.“Governor Abbott and General Paxton are ignoring medical professionals and intentionally misrepresenting the law to the detriment of transgender children and their families,” Menefee said in a statement.

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot is one of five Texas DAs who today issued a statement condemning recent actions by AG Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott targeting trans youth and their families.

The white cop who provided helpful spin for a white domestic terrorist. (Image via video still)

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee

Related: Judge who refuses to marry same-sex couples files legal action in TexasShe was backed by the First Liberty Institute, an organization that has helped others to fight to express their religious beliefs. The lawsuit, against the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, was moved to Travis County last year.On Monday, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported that Judge Jan Soifer threw the case out of court.SCOTUS ruled in 2015 that same-sex couples could marry across the US.

pride flag in Alcoa, Tennessee has gone viral, prompting calls for her firing from a local hospital.Teen artists Jasmine Martinez and Carmen McClainpainted a mural of the pride and transgender flags on a local bridge known for displaying communal artwork. As they did so, a woman–later identified as Tabitha Dardeau Travis of Maryville–began verbally harassing the teen girls for depicting the flag.After insulting the girls–including using racially charged language, claiming they’re not citizens–Travis produces her own cans of spray paint.A post shared by Jasmine Martinez (@jasmine_mar58)“I’m taking over.

Frank Macias in the city of Corrigan. Macias fled a pending court date in relation to a brutal attack on a gay couple in Austin in January 2019.Macias has previously confessed to the crime and had a court date for a bond hearing set earlier this fall.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Police with the Travis County Sheriff’s Office say several boats have sunk and officials are responding to “many boats in distress” at a Trump Boat Parade on Lake Travis, Texas, located 20 miles northwest of Austin.

Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan