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  • Kentucky and Tennessee bans on trans care blocked

    This year has been rough with unprecedented anti-trans laws. But now the wave of many of those same laws being struck down is starting to happen and we can only hope that in due time they’re all struck down. At least all bathroom laws and all restrictions on trans care.

    The unbroken record of federal judges finding that anti-transgender bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors violate, or likely violate, the U.S. Constitution continued Wednesday, when U.S. District Judge David Hale in Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of S.B. 150, that state’s recently passed ban.

    The order from Hale, an Obama appointee, bars the state from “enforcing, threatening to enforce, or otherwise requiring compliance” with provisions of the new law that were to ban health care providers from prescribing or administering puberty blockers or testosterone to assist with the provision of gender-affirming care. The law goes into effect on June 29.

    In Hale’s order, he also made clear that the scope of the ruling does not just apply to the plaintiffs, calling it a “facial injunction” that bars the state from enforcing the provisions of the new law against anyone.

    https://www.lawdork.com/p/kentucky-ban-on-trans-care-for-minors-blocked?publication_id=899862&post_id=131758436&isFreemail=true

  • Texas Judge Temporarily Halts Investigations

    Texas Judge Temporarily Halts Investigations

    All investigations into families with transgender children are temporarily halted in Texas. Some more unsavory facts about how CPS is operating are coming to light, making this look even worse than we initially suspected.

    Driving the news: A supervisor for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services testified on Friday that investigators were required to prioritize cases involving parents of transgender children but were prohibited from closing them if they determined that the case likely did not involve child abuse, according to media reports of video footage from a state district court hearing.

    What she’s saying: The agency’s approach to reports of parents seeking gender-affirming care for their children was different from other cases, the supervisor, Randa Mulanax, testified on Friday before Meachum, the Texas Tribune reports.

    Investigators were told to look into such cases without exception and not to document anything about the cases in writing, she testified.

    They could not give these cases “priority none status,” which occurs when the agency concludes that a report is unlikely to reflect a case of child abuse, according to Mulanax, who said she says she will resign from the agency.

    “I’ve always felt that, at the end of the day, the department had children’s best interest at heart,” she added. “I no longer feel that way.”