More than a dozen Democratic Attorney General on Friday announced a lawsuit challenging the recent steps by the administration of President Trump, which is protected by legal and law to restrict access to gender health care for anyone under 19 years of age.
The case was filed on Friday Three written instructions were challenged in the US District Court for Massachusetts district: Trump’s January 28 Executive Order Demand to eliminate federal support for gender-suit care for minors, and two memos from Attorney General Palm Bandy and Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumet.
The suit named Trump, Bondi and the Department of Justice as defendants. Neither the White House nor the Department of Justice immediately returned the request for comment.
Bandi MemoOn April 22, the Dated, asks the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute the care related care related care for the youth as a genital deformity. Shumet memorandum, Sent to Civil Division of Justice Department On 11 June, the lawyers direct the lawyers to prioritize investigation and enforcement operations against doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, which is in line with Bondi’s order.
The Attorney General said on Friday that the Department of Justice has taken “aggressive action” to implement Trump’s instructions on gender-suit care. One earlier order With the President’s declaration, the US recognizes only two irreversible sexes, men and women. A federal judge in Baltimore Trump’s January 28 order blockedWhich demanded withdrawal of grant funds from medical providers offering gender-transmission treatment to patients under 19 years of age in February.
The Department of Justice announced in July that it sent More than 20 subponuses Investigation of health care fraud and false statements, doctors and clinics “involve transgender medical procedures on children”. In June, FBI Gave a public petition For information about infection-related surgery hospitals, clinics and individual providers to minors.
“The federal government is running a cruel and targeted harassment campaign against the providers who provide lawful, lifetime care against the providers,” said New York Attorney General Latitia James (D). “This administration is brutally targeting the youth who already face immense obstacles, just to see and listen, and are putting countless lives at risk in this process.”
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Main, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Road Island and Visconsin’s Democratic Attorney General are involved in the trial. Pennsylvania village. Josh Shapiro (D) is also a plaintiff.
Other federal agencies and departments have also transferred to implement Trump’s order on gender-suit care. In May, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Broken with major health groups In an indigested report, in which puberty blockers, hormones and rare surgery have been declared for minors with gender dysforia, lack of scientific evidence, calling for greater dependence on psychiatry on medical intervention.
In May 28 letter For health care providers, risk managers and state medical boards, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior said that the treatment protocol should be updated immediately to align with the department review.
Also on 28 May, Administrator for the Center of Mehmat Oz, Medicare and Medicade Services (CMS), Demand for data from hospitals It provides gender-suggestion care to the youth. CMS called states first To suspend the use of Medicade Fund For hormones or infection-related surgery for minors.
On Monday, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Started a public inquiry Whether or not transgender health care providers are violating federal consumer protection laws. FTC held a workshop in July, titled “Dangers of ‘gender-confusion care’ for minors.”
The Democratic Attorney General wrote in Friday’s trial, “There is no legal basis for any tasks of the administration challenged by the lawsuit.” “They should be declared illegal and emptied in their entirety.”
In hospitals across the country, in hospitals, even Democratic-controlled states, which protect gender-suitable care, have begun to stop or stop care, citing uncertainty about Tram’s executive orders and other federal tasks.
In Colorado, Denver Health suspended gender-suitable surgery for patients under 19 years of age and said that it will no longer write puberty blockers or hormones to minors; In Illinois, at least four Chicago-region hospitals have stopped gender-transformation treatment for the youth; The three most prominent hospitals in New York said that they would curb gender-suit care for minors following Trump’s order; In Washington, DC, the Children’s National Hospital recently announced that it would stop determining the gender-purification drugs starting on August 30, increasing the legal and regulatory risks “.
In July, Children Hospital Los Angeles closed its center for Transuoth Health and Development, one of the oldest and largest clinics in the country for transgender young people.
Non -profit health giant Kaiser Permanent announced last week that it will happen Stop gender-confusion surgery For patients under 19 by the end of August. Kaiser, which serves over 12 million members in eight states and Washington, DC, stated that the decision to suspend care was influenced by a developed “legal and regulatory environment for gender-discourse care” and referred to specific trump administration works including sub-pionas of the Department of Justice.
California, where Kaiser’s headquarters, protects access to gender-afforestation care Under a 2022 State Act Signed by Democratic village Gavin Newsom.
At a 24 July news conference, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) responded to the announcements of Kaiser and other state health providers, acknowledged the security of the state, but indicated that his office would focus more than the reactions of medical institutions to the dangers of the Trump administration.
“The main problem here – the original of this issue is illegal, unfair threats from the Trump administration. He is trying to introduce these hospitals,” said Bonta. “We want to focus on the problem, which is a threat from Washington DC and Trump administration, and we will be.”
