Trump Administration Too Late to Lift Block on Trans Care Orders

President Donald Trump‘s executive orders barring funding for gender-affirming care for minors will remain blocked in four states while the case is on appeal, a federal judge said.

The Trump administration’s attorneys didn’t explain their delay in seeking the stay of the February preliminary injunction, why a lower court should entertain their request now, and they failed to show they’d be irreparably harmed without one, Judge Lauren King said Monday.

The government didn’t seek a stay of King’s preliminary injunction from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where arguments are pending, despite her earlier denial of ...