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The ruling will be challenged in court, this is just a temporary injunction but it is still good news.

Texas Judge Temporarily Blocks Paxton’s Demand for Transgender Minors’ Records

An L.G.B.T.Q. organization had sued after the state’s attorney general asked for documents on children receiving gender-affirming care.

The New York Times

By Colbi Edmonds

March 3, 2024

A judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Texas attorney general from forcing an L.G.B.T.Q. organization to turn over documents on transgender minors and the gender-affirming care they may be receiving.

In Texas, medical care for gender transition is prohibited for minors under a law passed last year. As part of an investigation into violations of the ban, the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded early last month that the nonprofit PFLAG National, which supports families in accessing gender-affirming care for children, provide information on minors in the state who may have received such treatments.

But on Friday, Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel of Travis County District Court issued an injunction against Mr. Paxton, just days after PFLAG sued to block the request, saying turning over the documents would cause “irreparable injury, loss or damage” to the group. The judge added that such an ask would infringe on the group’s constitutional rights and that its members would be subject to “gross invasions” of privacy.

In a statement, PFLAG’s lawyers, including the American Civil Liberties Union, said they were “grateful that the court saw the harm the attorney general’s office’s intrusive demands posed.”

The judge’s words sound encouraging! This sound very positive, “would cause “irreparable injury, loss or damage” in that the judge feels like overreach and a fishing expedition.

The judge scheduled a hearing for March 25 to give the attorney general a chance to argue against the injunction.

They argue “State’s Rights!” but they want other state to kowtow to them and force their draconian laws on the other states. Somehow this doesn’t sound like “State’s Rights!” but rather it sounds more like the The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.