This story Originally reported by Orion Rummler The 19th. Meet Orion and read more of his reports on gender, politics and policy.
A group of state attorney generals led by New York; I filed a lawsuit He accused the Trump administration of increasing unconstitutional pressure campaigns for gender-affirming care of transgender youth. The lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts challenges measures that the Department of Justice filed an investigation and halt. Gender maintenance care Nationwide.
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The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pursuing a backdoor strategy that limits gender-maintaining care at the federal level through the threat of criminal and civil penalties, while expanding state laws protecting health care for transgender patients.
As a federal investigation The threat of funding Once deployed, hospitals across the country are closing gender maintenance care programs for minors, including in areas where access to this care is protected by state law. Clinics and medical programs are closed in California, Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Washington, DC and others. Several hospitals are considering closing or suspending gender-preserving care programs to President Donald Trump’s executive order and federal administrative measures. Yale Health System and Denver Health In Colorado.
Recently White House We celebrated these closures As a direct result of Trump’s executive order.
“The administration’s actions put providers in an impossible position. They violate state laws that require compliance with illegal federal threats or non-discriminatory access to healthcare,” New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office said in a statement.
James and other attorney general, who are suing Trump administration, argue that these actions are not based on the law. Instead, the lawsuit argues that these actions are threatening tactics that curb health care. Through the courts, they are trying to stop the Justice Department’s actions.
Plaintiffs in the suit include the state attorney general, whose gender clinic was recently closed, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. They argue that gender-maintaining care is legally protected in all states and that the federal government blocking that care violates the state’s rights provided by the 10th Amendment.
Over the past few months, federal agencies have begun tracking Trump’s executive orders on gender-maintaining care.
In early July, Justice Department Chief of Staff Chad Mizzell announced that the agency had announced at least 20 subpoenas to clinics involved in gender transition care, along with an investigation into the hospital providing subpoena and care to pharmaceutical manufacturers. Doctors are summoned for the patient’s personal information New York Times Report. The agent follows White House Order In January, we conducted a wide-ranging survey of gender-affirming care via executive orders. The Trump administration is wrong in these directives Care was confused with female genital mutilation.
The New York lawsuit challenged these actions; FBI Criminal Investigation Currently, they provide gender-affirming care or have had three children’s hospitals in the past. The lawsuit comes against Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondy and the Department of Justice, but also mentions other actions taken by federal agencies targeting gender-maintaining care. All-day event Hosted by the Federal Trade Commission. The event, entitled “The Risk of Gender Applying Care for Minors,” is where the Department of Justice first published a subpoena of confidential patient information.
major medical groups including American Medical Association, American Psychological Association and American Academy of Pediatrics It approves gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The new president of the World Professionals Association for Transgender Health, which sets global standards for doctors and nurses providing medical care to trans patients Expressed concern Prohibiting gender-maintaining care simply puts the patient at risk and puts the patient at risk.
Transgender people, as well as the families and parents of transgender youth, feel increasingly worried and scared The Trump administration targets their identities And their health care. For years, the state has Gender maintenance care for minors is prohibited In the Red State and through Republican-controlled Congress. But now, as crackdowns are taking place at the national level, trans people are I live in blue states and liberal cities. Face the same threat.
Source: Advocate.com – www.advocate.com
