Donald Trump Suffers Legal Setback Over Transgender Order [View all]
Source: ABC News
Published Feb 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM EST
A Maryland judge has extended a restraining order that prevents President Donald Trump's administration from cutting funding to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to minors. Newsweek contacted PFLAG and attorneys representing the Trump administration for comment via email outside regular business hours.
Why It Matters
Upon returning to office on January 20, Trump signed a slew of executive orders, several of which have been blocked by federal courts. The legal challenges brought by activists and state governments indicate institutional resistance to Trump's agenda, and the outcomes of the cases could define the president's tenure and his ability to make changes.
What To Know
On January 28, Trump signed an executive order blocking hospitals and clinics that receive federal funding from providing gender-affirming care to people under the age of 19. On February 13, U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson placed a temporary restraining order on Trump's executive order, arguing that the plaintiffs—a group of transgender teens and LGBTQ organizations—were likely to succeed in their claim that Trump's order was unconstitutional. Following the order, hospitals and clinics in the U.S stopped providing puberty blockers, surgery, hormones and other medical treatments to transgender minors.
The move affected more than 300,000 minors, according to the plaintiffs in the case. On February 26, the plaintiffs, led by PFLAG—formerly Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays—submitted legal documents rejecting the Trump administration's arguments for lifting the restraining order. "Defendants' Opposition recycles arguments already rejected by this Court and fails to provide any new record evidence to support their assertions that gender affirming medical care is either unsafe or ineffective," the plaintiffs' submission said.
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