Texas judge hears case on state's transgender care investigations
A Texas judge is holding a hearing Friday on whether to prevent state officials from investigating reports of transgender youth receiving gender-affirming care as child abuse.
The hearing comes the same day that dozens of major companies — including Apple, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Meta and Microsoft — criticized the Texas directive in a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News.
“The recent attempt to criminalize a parent for helping their transgender child access medically necessary, age-appropriate healthcare in the state of Texas goes against the values of our companies,” read the ad, which used the headline “DISCRIMINATION IS BAD FOR BUSINESS.”
District Judge Amy Clark Meachum will hear Friday from attorneys for the state and the parents of a 16-year-old girl who were being investigated by the Department of Family and Protective Services over such care.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/texas-judge-hears-case-transgender-child-abuse-investigations-n1291628
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