A federal judge on Thursday temporarily halted the Trump administration’s enforcement of an executive order that shut down gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.
In a win for transgender rights advocates, Judge Brendan Abell Hurson of the US District Court for the District of Maryland blocked the order nationwide, the Lambda Legal Legal Defense & Education Fund said in a statement. The restraining order bans federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under 19, the group said.
The executive order, issued ...