A federal judge on Thursday blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s two executive orders that limit transgender care, impacting healthcare facilities nationwide.
Trump signed two executive orders recently that impact transgender care for minors, including one that threatened to withhold federal funding to hospitals and other healthcare providers that do not stop providing gender-affirming treatments — including puberty blockers and hormone treatments — to transgender children and teens under the age of 19.
A group of transgender teens, their parents, and two organizations challenged the executive order by raising concern about the order’s impact on transgender youth. U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson determined that the plaintiffs would likely prevail on the claims that the actions were done without authority and amount to illegal and unconstitutional discrimination.
“Stopping care in the middle of receiving it, any care, really, casts doubt on whether in fact the goals are to protect the recipients of the care,” Hurson said during a hearing on the matter, per The Hill.
