I'm not sure exactly what you intend to do, but TRMT gets asserted half-way into the STOP bit, so if you immediately disable the TX then the STOP bit will be half the time and generate a framing error.

The datasheet doesn't really specify that TXEN controls the state of the TX output pin (see datasheet section 25.1.1.1), but if it does return control back to the IO PORTC/TRISC registers then you'd have to make sure that the TX pin (RC6) is set to output high.

If you want it to be an input/tristate with an external pullup then set TRISC6.