BREAKING: Texas Supreme Court allows some investigations into parents of trans minor, but questions governor’s authority in mixed ruling.
Demonstrators gather on the steps to the State Capitol in Austin, Texas on May 20, 2021 to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House.The Texas Supreme Court on Friday issued a multipart ruling on investigations into transgender care for minors that has both sides claiming victory.
One of the agency’s first investigations was into one of its own employees, who has a transgender child. “The Governor and the Attorney General were certainly well within their rights to state their legal and policy views on this topic, but DFPS was not compelled by law to follow them,” he wrote. “...the Legislature has granted to DFPS, not to the Governor or the Attorney General, the statutory responsibility to ‘make a prompt and thorough investigation of a report of child abuse or neglect.
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