We Won!

We won in a Texas court, the details are sketchy. Only legal outlets covered the ruling but it was a major victory!

William Logan Discusses Texas Appeals Court’s Ruling Protecting Transgender Patients’ Medical Privacy with Law360

October 20, 2025

Winston & Strawn associate William Logan was quoted in a Law360 article following a significant decision by the Texas Fifteenth Court of Appeals, which granted mandamus relief to nonparty patients seeking to protect their private medical records in a lawsuit concerning gender-affirming care. Winston represents the patients in opposing the State’s overly broad requests to secure their medical information. The appellate court directed a lower court to withdraw its order requiring two Dallas hospitals to produce documents related to the care of transgender patients, finding that the lower court had abused its discretion.

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“Today, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals rightly rejected the attorney general’s position that his office is immune from procedures and laws that protect medical privacy — and affirmed that all Texans, regardless of gender, have the right to challenge overly broad subpoenas for their private medical records,” he added. “Our clients now look forward to obtaining a definitive protective order that safeguards their medical records and puts this unwarranted privacy invasion behind them.”

The backstory...

Texas Supreme Court considers Ken Paxton's demand for PFLAG records on transgender youth care

KERA PBS

By Toluwani Osibamowo

October 7, 2025

Texas Supreme Court justices will decide how much information PFLAG will have to give Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office for his investigation into medical providers allegedly violating the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors — a request the LGBTQ rights organization says is unconstitutional.

After a Travis County district court ruled in March that PFLAG could withhold some of its records from the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), the question in front of the high court Tuesday was whether the trial court followed the proper steps in coming to its decision.

Solicitor General William Peterson told justices the trial court dragged out the first step of the OAG’s investigation: getting relevant information.

“We think the best this court can do is to tell the trial court these are not proceedings that initiate the traditional trial process,” Peterson said. “These are just discovery objections that you should handle like any other discovery objection and attempt to resolve expeditiously.”

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After a temporary restraining order and injunction in PFLAG’s favor and a trial in 2024, Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum ruled earlier this year to limit the scope of the information PFLAG had to give the OAG to only non-confidential information.

So now the Appeals Court has ruled in our favor and you know darn well the state will appeal!