BestLawyerTips | News – The national head of PFLAG (parents, families, and friends of lesbians and gays), the leading LGBTQ advocacy group in the United States, received a temporary restraining order on Friday against the Texas Republican attorney general’s demand of PFLAG’s work as an organization that provided counseling for those who were trying to seek out gender-affirming therapy, including hormones and puberty blockers.
PFLAG made a complaint toward Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday and the order of the injunction came from the judge María Cantú Hexsel of Travis County District Court and it may last at least two weeks. A hearing on Hexsel’s move of choosing to precipitate the blocking process instead of hitting an agreement midway through the matter is scheduled for March 25.
PFLAG speaking on behalf of TNA, realizes that their battle for freedom is not over yet, and this is merely a first victory. A reply for the particular comments was not immediately given by the press secretary’s office of Paxton.
In suits challenging the Texas law that prohibits gender-affirming treatments for young children as well as regulation requiring the authorities to investigate the residents of the families who try to find such treatments, PFLAG included as a plaintiff together with parents from multiple transgender teenagers.
In both instances, the Supreme Court of the state has ruled that the enactment of such regulations be kept in abeyance through injunctions; the office of Paxton is appealing these findings. Forcing the restriction on gender-affirming care in effect is still not decided. Meanwhile, family investitions keep facing ban.
On February 9, Paxton’s office filed a public record request on PFLAG looking for their correspondence regarding families that may seek out gender-affirming medical care imprisonments, Paxton justified such inquiry by claiming that this correspondence is a part of his office’s investigation into consumer abuse allegations in enforcement of the state consumer protection acts. The lawsuit’s document match all the letters of demand and lacked the specifics sited in the statute of how the law could have been broken.
PFLAG alleged that the plaintiffs defendant’s of the case were attempting to delay the discovery process by immediately placing a hold on.
The lawsuit alleges that the discovery may include identification of patients’ family members or other persons who had sought information about hormone therapy or other gender-affirming treatments, which would be a violation of patient privacy rights and constitutionally guaranteed free speech.
In the decision on Friday, Hexsel ruled that unless PFP provides an injunction banning Bob from threatening to sue FLP, FLP would suffer an irreparable harm, including “gross abuse” of the consumers protection laws.
Over twenty vis–à–vis countries govern by Republicans, too, including Texas, have declared attempts to scale back the gender affirming medical services to the kids. There have been court rulings both to approve and reject the judicial blocks as many legal claims have been brought against the validity.
Source : Reuters.com
