Friday’s injunction applies to all members of PFLAG, an LGBTQ advocacy group with more than 600 members in Texas.
The legal battle over the governor's directive to investigate families of certain transgender children heated up this week. Groups suing the state want to make clear that state investigators should not be able to continue investigations while their case makes its way through courts.
The injunction also specifically protects a handful of families named in the suit, including the Briggles, outspoken advocates for transgender youth who were among the first to be investigated under this directive. In February, following a non-binding legal opinion from Attorney General Ken Paxton, Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children.The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Abbott had no grounds to direct DFPS to investigate these families, but overturned a statewide injunction on procedural grounds.
"The court has grasped the magnitude and breadth of the continued harm that Gov. Abbott’s directive and Attorney General Paxton’s opinion would have caused if DFPS was allowed to pursue its investigations," said Nicholas "Guilly" Guillory, a lawyer with Lambda Legal.
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