Updated with comment from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued PFLAG, a national organization for LGBTQ friends, after it claimed he wanted information about the group’s function with transgender minors.
On Wednesday, the group filed the lawsuit in Travis County, asking for an injunction to stop them from withholding the data.
According to PFLAG’s CEO, Brian K. Bond,” This mean-spirited demand from the Attorney General’s Office is trivial and aggressive, which is why we want the jury to put an end to it.”
According to PFLAG’s lawsuit, the attorney general’s office issued a” legal analytical demand” on February 9 ordering the organization to turn over papers that included contacts, meeting minutes, and other details about interactions between the team and transgender people.
According to the lawsuit, Paxton’s company wanted information on how to address the children’s gender-affirming heath care was provided. The buyer protection section issued the need, accusing PFLAG of “misrepresenting” gender-affirming care procedures in violation of state law.
In a press release on Thursday afternoon, Paxton, a strongly conservative Republican who has worked to reduce LGBTQ rights and labeled gender-affirming treatment for adolescents” child abuse,” responded to the complaint.
He accuses PFLAG of hiding information about Texans receiving gender-affirming treatment in contravention of the state’s law prohibiting minors from using the same methods. In a different court case from last year, Paxton claimed that the organization acknowledged” that it has consulted with people about’contingency plans ,’alternative avenues to preserve care in Texas ,’and so-called’affirming’ common practitioners.”
The largest health care organizations in the country, including the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association, help age-appropriate gender-affirming treatment for adolescents. However, the practices have been criticized and even outlawed in several GOP-controlled state.
According to reports, Paxton’s company sent similar requests to healthcare services in Georgia and Washington that offered gender-affirming solutions to minors next year.
Paxton has confirmed additional requires made of businesses that have been accused of breaking consumer safety regulations, also issuing press produces promoting them. He announced an exploration into the gender-affirming treatment for adolescents taking place at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin last month. The hospital fired its full adolescent healthcare clinic staff as a result of the investigation.
However, Paxton has not been as forthcoming about the more recent studies he has conducted into the transgender adolescent health system.
The Texas Newsroom has requested files of all of the company’s legal analytical requires three days this time, the most recently on February 19 with a letter sent to PFLAG.
In response, Paxton’s firm withheld some of the demands, contending that they cannot be made public due to a provision in the public records rules that permits keeping info about “anticipated litigation” secret. A version of the PFLAG desire was not made available.
With Paxton’s company, PFLAG has filed two additional claims.
One contests the company’s decision to investigate the families of transgender children for child abuse in 2022, and the other seeks to overthrow a state law that forbids gender-affirming care for minors.
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