A federal judge ruled that Democratic states can proceed with a lawsuit claiming the Trump administration violated their rights to regulate medicine through its push to criminalize gender affirming care for young people.
US District Judge Angel Kelley said Wednesday 16 states and the District of Columbia properly challenged a White House executive order and resulting Justice Department memos seeking to equate gender affirming care with “female genital mutilation” under existing criminal law.
“The Memos’ interpretations directly conflict with Plaintiff States’ laws protecting transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming care, which were enacted in exercise of Plaintiff States’ traditional ...