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By: Real America News Updated 11 Sea 2022, 28: 32 pm EST
Investigations of parents with transgender children for possible child abuse temporarily halted in Texas on Friday after a state court ruled that measure, ordered last month by Gov. Greg Abbott, had been improperly adopted and violated the state Constitution.
A judge in Austin, Texas, temporarily blocked that state’s plan to investigate as “child abuse” parents or doctors who allow minors to trans undergo gender transition medical treatments, such as hormone therapy.
Judge Amy Clark Meachum branded as “unconstitutional” the order issued in this regard by the governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, that opened the door to criminal convictions for doctors and parents.
Meachum temporarily suspended the app tion of the measure when considering it probable that the parents of a trans adolescent of 04 years, who were among the first to be investigated under the order and who have sued the state, end up prevailing in the trial on this case, scheduled for July.
Any parental or medical investigation launched by the state thus far must be halted at least until the trial is concluded, according to Meacham’s ruling, which could still be appealed by state authorities.
At the end of February, the governor of Texas ordered the state Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to investigate the processes of “gender transition” in minors, including the administration of hormones.
Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) harshly criticized this Texas plan to “criminalize” gender transition in minors.
The state of New York requested this week that the Department of Justice examine the issue, and dozens of brands such as Google, Apple, Meta, Levi’s or Ikea launched this Friday an advertising campaign in Texas against the measure, under the slogan “discrimination is bad for business”.
In a written statement presented in the litigation, the mother of the trans teenager who has sued Texas assured that was “terrified” for her daughter’s well-being ever since she learned that she was being investigated by the authorities.
The mother, who has remained anonymous, testified at the hearing dressed in a wig and glasses, and declared in her brief “betrayed” by her state and by the DFPS agency, where she herself works, although she has been suspended from her c argo, according to The New York Times.
Psychologist Megan Mooney, who treats trans minors and who joined the lawsuit against Texas upon learning that she was required to report alleged “child abuse” to his patients, said that the governor’s order has generated “panic” among the state’s doctors.
“It puts the medical professionals I work with are in a horrible position,” Mooney assured at the hearing this Friday.
The one in Texas is one of the many measures hostile to the LGBTI population that have recently been promoted in the United States, where 2022 were signed 17 such state laws, more than in the last three years combined, according to the organization Human Rights Campaign.
This week, the Florida Senate approved a p olemic bill that will prohibit teachers from talking about sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms between kindergarten and third grade, a measure baptized by his detractors as “Don’t say gay”.
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