Posted on 06/10/2022 9:01:31 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
The temporary restraining order also applies to any families who are members of the LGBTQ organization PFLAG.
The judge said the investigations can cause "immediate and irreparable injury," including, "gross invasions of privacy in the home and school, and the resulting trauma felt by parents, siblings, and other household members," as well as negative impacts on grades and school activity, fear and anxiety and "increased incidence of depression."
The investigations, carried out by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), come after state Attorney General Ken Paxton released a non-legally binding opinion earlier this year declaring providing gender-affirming surgical procedures and drugs affecting puberty should be considered "child abuse."
Following the declaration, the governor directed the DFPS to conduct investigations into parents and guardians who allow their children to receive the targeted treatments.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed earlier this week, include three transgender children who have been prescribed gender-affirming medical treatment and their parents, who say they have been investigated by the department's Child Protective Services for possible child abuse, according to the suit.
The children were not identified by name due to privacy concerns. The investigation against one of the families in the lawsuit, Adam and Amber Briggle, was closed by DFPS and child abuse was ruled out, plaintiffs' attorney Paul Castillo said. The Briggle family is the only one whose real names are used in the lawsuit.
"That families will be protected from invasive, unnecessary, and unnerving investigations by DFPS simply for helping their transgender children thrive and be themselves is a very good thing," said Brian K. Bond, the executive director of PFLAG, in a statement.
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I just watched the documentary “What Is A Women” and it describes one of the drugs they give kids as similar to chemical castration and irreversible. If the kid is under 18 this should be child abuse.
EVERY adult who advocates for and facilitates “gender transitions” for children under the age of 18 should be arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned for life for felony child abuse!
They are some kind of sick!
They are dirt bags.
It wouldn’t surprise me if we see a rise in the number of kids who kill their parents over the next 20 years. How many confused and angry children are these fools creating?
Potentially a whole bunch.
By far the transgendering is MTF, male to female.
For thousands of years the masters castrated the male slaves.
Now the males are doing it themselves. Could there be some long lived illness that causes men to want to be subservient slaves?
Legalizing child abuse and grooming under the law
these kids will be treated like the girls on the sports teams who have boys pretending to be girls in the ranks... later when they claim abuse, they will be silenced.
we can only blame ourselves for not stopping it 20... 30.... 40 years ago. now its too late.
Future generations are going to look back and ask, “What the hell were we thinking?”
Texas should go after the judge for encouraging child abuse.
This so-called “transgender thing” will not end well!
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