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Texas child welfare workers are quitting after being forced to investigate trans kids’ families
“By me being there, for even a split second, a child could think they’ve done something wrong,” said a trans man told to investigate a family for being supportive of their trans kid.
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Texas lawmaker files complaint against judge who allowed same-sex wedding
A state lawmaker’s complaint has prompted the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct to investigate a judge who ordered the issuance of a marriage license to a same-sex couple.
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Texas AG asks state Supreme Court to void same‑sex couple’s marriage
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday the state’s same-sex marriage ban has been “needlessly cast in doubt” after a judge gave a lesbian couple from Austin permission to tie the knot. Paxton warned of “legal chaos” if the state Supreme Court doesn’t void their marriage and make clear that a judge wrongly allowed the couple to wed.
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Same-sex couple married in Travis County, Texas, despite gay marriage ban
Despite Texas’ statewide ban on gay marriage, county officials in Austin have married a same-sex couple under a one-time court order issued for medical reasons. Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked the state’s highest civil court to swiftly halt the order that allowed the couple to marry.
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Texas AG seeks to block probate judge’s same-sex marriage ruling
Ken Paxton says Probate Judge Guy Herman’s “misguided ruling does not change Texas law or allow the issuance of a marriage license to anyone other than one man and one woman.”
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Probate judge rules Texas same‑sex marriage ban unconstitutional
A judge in Travis County, Texas, on Tuesday ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, but the impact of the ruling remains unclear and the County Clerk declined to take any immediate action on issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.