investigate all parents who allow their kids to receive such care, asserting that this is a form of child abuse. He based his order on a nonbinding opinion from Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Both are far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans.One family sued; the mother is a DFPS employee, and the family had already been visited by an investigator.
Texas Civil District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum last week granted a restraining order that stopped this investigation, and she scheduled a hearing for Friday to consider blocking Abbott’s directive more broadly.
But the state quickly appealed, putting the plans for the Friday hearing on hold.The ruling from the Third Court of Appeals means that hearing can go forward, The Dallas Morning News reports.