Texas Supreme Court tosses suit over state probe into families with transgender children

KERA News ^ | April 24, 2026 | Toluwani Osibamowo

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The Texas Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit over the state's investigations into families with transgender children because most of the investigations were closed and the children are no longer minors.

In a ruling Friday, the state’s highest civil court ruled that because the Department of Family and Protective Services isn’t actively investigating the families, they no longer face the alleged threats they outlined in their 2022 lawsuits against the agency.

The plaintiffs argued against dismissing the case, suggesting DFPS could choose to reopen its investigations without the injunction. But the Texas Supreme Court dismissed those concerns over future investigations as too speculative.

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A nice outcome for what it is. But I wish the Court could have been more decisive in shooting down child mutilation completely.

[lee martell]

I think that sounds like the Texas Court has decided in favor of Skirting The Issue, aka Kicking The Can for another Court to decide.

[spintreebob]

A court should not be or do legislative. The court is right.

[CharlesOConnell]

Author Catherine Liu exposes the Professional Management Class, "the people who always know better than you (they're worried about the balloons at the zoo)".

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A court should not be or do legislative.

That's not the issue here. Texas passed a law a couple of years ago banning "gender transition" medical procedures on minors. Several parents were still doing it and the state's attorney general's office rightly investigated the crime. This didn't make the insane parents or providers happy.

I guess you can sue for anything, but the State was following existing law.