Their Kids Said They Were Trans. Then CPS Came Knocking. Across the country, parents of gender-dysphoric kids are confronting state intrusion. Reason · Mar 22, 2025
Red Sox's Jarren Duran Suspended Two Games for Calling Fan Anti-LGBTQ Slur Boston will donate his game checks to PFLAG. Sports Illustrated · Aug 12, 2024
For the first time, West Texas has a permanent LGBTQ+ community center A local volunteer died by suicide ahead of the center’s grand opening, reminding the West Texas community why such spaces are important. The Texas Tribune · Jun 13, 2024
LGBTQ+ Advocacy Group Sues Texas Attorney General PFLAG National sues Texas AG over demands for information on transgender youth care support, sparking legal battle and concerns over privacy and LGBTQ+ rights. Top News · Mar 1, 2024
NLPC accuses Oreo of "grooming children" This isn't the first time the cookie company has been the object of conservatives' ire Salon · Feb 7, 2024
Texas AG Ken Paxton pushes court to reconsider injunction halting investigations into affirming care In the state’s final brief to appeal a September injunction that halted the investigation into Texas parents of transgender children, Paxton argued that individual families must provide evidence of harm from the actions of the Department of Family and Protective Services. The Texas Tribune · Mar 16, 2023
“I want to fight”: LGBTQ Texans ready for legislative session as GOP lawmakers target them in dozens of bills Republicans are backing legislation targeting gender-affirming care for children, classroom lessons about sexuality and drag shows. The Texas Tribune · Jan 9, 2023
Texas court expands protections for families with trans kids State officials are blocked from investigating families with trans children if they are members of PFLAG. Axios · Sep 16, 2022
Texas’ child welfare agency blocked from investigating many more parents of trans teens Friday’s injunction applies to all members of PFLAG, an LGBTQ advocacy group with more than 600 members in Texas. The Texas Tribune · Sep 16, 2022
Texas judge halts abuse investigations into advocate families with transgender children A Texas judge has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to halt all investigations into the families of transgender children if they are members of the LGBT advocacy nonprofit PFLAG. Tribune News Service · Sep 16, 2022
Transgender student, 13, interrogated in school by Texas agency over ‘child abuse’ order The state’s Department of Family and Protective Services is still investigating families over the governor’s directive despite court orders to shut them down, filings reveal The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2022
Trans teen was ‘fearful’ when Texas worker showed up at school to question him, mom says DALLAS — An employee from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services showed up at a 13-year-old transgender boy’s middle school to interview him as part of an investigation into his family over the use of gender-affirming medical treatments, according to newly filed court documents. Tribune News Service · Sep 9, 2022
Vietnam says homosexuality ‘not a disease’ in win for gay rights Announcement from Health Ministry also bans conversion therapy but lacks enforcement powers. Al Jazeera · Aug 22, 2022
There Is No Legitimate ‘Debate’ Over Gender-Affirming Healthcare A recent New York Times article that experts called inaccurate and unethical now serves as evidence in Texas against transgender kids. Texas Observer · Jul 22, 2022
Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 1, 2022 Dear Abby: Mom loves me but won’t accept I’m a trans man The teen is heartbroken that mother won’t discuss the subject or use the new name or pronouns.
WEKU · Jun 23, 2022 50 years ago, PFLAG's founder marched with her gay son. How's it keeping up in 2022? PFLAG was started almost 50 years ago when gay people and their families were isolated and stigmatized. Now, the organization is finding new families to support and new legal battles to fight.
WEKU · Jun 10, 2022 A judge blocks Texas from investigating families of trans youth The temporary restraining order issued by Judge Jan Soifer halts investigations against three families who sued.
Reason · Jun 9, 2022 Will Tonight's Capitol Riot Hearing Deliver Bombshells or Be Another Dud? Plus: Families sue over Texas directive on care for transgender kids, teleworker taxes will come before Ohio Supreme Court, and more...
Salon · Apr 5, 2022 Conservatives vow "gay" cookie boycott Right-wing talking heads Greg Kelly and Ben Shapiro vow to boycott "gay cookies" after Oreo releases LGBTQ film