A federal judge just blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender surgeries for minors, restricting the administration from withholding federal funding from any health care facility who continues with this.
Judge Brendan Hurson thinks that the plaintiffs will win in the case and that’s why he blocked the executive orders.
Here’s more from The Hill:
A federal judge Thursday blocked parts of two executive orders issued by President Trump that collectively seek to restrict gender-affirming care.
U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson at the conclusion of a hearing found a group of transgender teens and LGBTQ organizations that sued were likely to prevail on all of their claims that the orders are 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,” said Hurson, an appointee of former President Biden.
Under Hurson’s new ruling, various federal agencies are temporarily prohibited from withholding or conditioning funding based on a health care facility providing gender-affirming care anywhere in the country.
The plaintiffs — a group of transgender teens, their parents and two organizations, PFLAG and GLMA — raised alarm that hospitals across the country quickly moved to cancel appointments after Trump issued two executive orders as part of what his administration has called a crackdown on “gender ideology.”
Hurson was appointed by Joe Biden.