|A Texas judge on Friday blocked Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive for children service agents to investigate parents of trans children for child abuse.
directive to compel the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate.
The lawsuit marked the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s directive and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton labeling certainas “child abuse.” DFPS said it had opened nine investigations following the directive and opinion. “ singles out these families for targeted scrutiny, it stigmatizes them, invades their privacy and it interferes with the fundamental right of parents to make the decision of what’s best for their child,” Paul Castillo, an attorney for the parents, said toward the end of the daylong hearing before Meachum.
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