A Texas court on Friday blocked the state’s child and youth welfare agency from conducting child abuse investigations of three families who allowed their children to commence sex change treatments and procedures.
Travis County District Court granted a temporary restraining order against the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating the parents of three transgender minors.
The families claimed in a lawsuit that they are providing their transgender children “medically necessary health care.”
But according to a legal opinion by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, certain sex change procedures, such as “non-medically necessary, gender-based procedures or treatments on a minor,” could constitute child abuse under Texas law (pdf)….