In a significant legal development, an Austin judge has issued a temporary injunction preventing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from obtaining documents from PFLAG, a national LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This decision marks a temporary victory for LGBTQ+ rights advocates amid ongoing debates over gender-affirming care for trans youth in Texas. The legal action comes in the context of broader discussions on pediatric gender-transition treatments, which Admiral Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has defended as crucial suicide prevention measures. Levine's stance is supported by extensive research indicating the necessity of such treatments in every state. Meanwhile, the legal landscape continues to evolve, with a Texas federal judge recently dismissing a lawsuit challenging an Obama-era rule that prohibits discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation in adoption-related federal funding.
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, argued that such bans “prevent transgender youth from accessing medically necessary, safe health care backed by decades of research and supported by every major medical association.” https://t.co/mdOENdaZbH
The Texas Office of the Attorney General was blocked from demanding information and documents from PFLAG, a national nonprofit that supports the families of LGBTQ people, including transgender youths seeking gender-affirming care. https://t.co/7oqUgXycWJ
An Austin judge has stopped Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from accessing trans kids' records from a national LGBTQ+ organization. https://t.co/zKpofKNUVa
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A Texas federal judge has scrapped a lawsuit challenging an Obama-era rule prohibiting recipients of adoption-related federal funding from discriminating based on gender and sexual orientation. https://t.co/P4OZgyt9VQ
A brief victory for LGBTQ+ rights advocates after a judge temporarily blocked Texas AG Ken Paxton from getting documents from the group PFLAG https://t.co/G8AyBJzZXu
A judge issued a temporary injunction blocking Attorney General Ken Paxton's investigative demands from a LGBTQ+ organization. https://t.co/TbpyPXy7MU
Admiral Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, characterizes pediatric gender-transition treatment as suicide prevention, based on decades of research, which “should be available in every state.” https://t.co/5ex2EBEFWL
Texas district judge blocks Ken Paxton's demands for PFLAG gender-affirming care records https://t.co/wH3JdEp3WD
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An Austin judge has once again stopped Texas from accessing information on trans youth from national LGBTQ+ organization PFLAG. https://t.co/pLkHV6sPys