In Texas, a judge has temporarily barred state officials from investigating the parents of a trans teenager for seeking gender-affirming care for their child. The case was part of a new, highly contested anti-trans directive issued last month. A hearing later this month could see the order being blocked altogether. Chase Strangio of the ACLU, which sued Texas on behalf of the targeted parents, said, “Attempts to cut off transgender adolescents from care will not make them any less trans but it will make them less likely to grow up at all.”