A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the federal government from funding or supporting child transgender drugs and surgeries.
U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson granted a temporary restraining order against a pair of Trump orders, one cutting federal funding from doctors who offer children transgender medicalization and the other officially recognizing only male and female sexes.
“This is a population with an extremely higher rate for suicide, poverty, unemployment, drug addiction,” Hurson said during the hearing in federal court in Baltimore.
The judge claimed that stopping transgender drugs and surgeries for children would be “horribly dangerous for anyone, for any care, but particularly for this extremely vulnerable population.”
Trump’s order, signed last month, commits that the United States will not fund or support the “so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
“This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end,” Trump wrote.
The order prompted a slew of hospitals to pump the brakes on transgender medicalization for children, including hospitals in New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Colorado, and Virginia.
The administration is expected to appeal the decision, and the case could end up at the Supreme Court.
Several progressive groups sued the administration over the move. The ACLU and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit on behalf of PFLAG and GLMA, as well as seven anonymous trans-identifying youth under 19.
The attorneys general of Washington state, Oregon, and Minnesota have also sued over Trump’s transgender order in a separate case.
Critics, especially parents and detransitioners, have raised the alarm over transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for gender dysphoric children over the last several years.
In Europe, several countries have already pumped the brakes on these drugs and procedures for children. More than two dozen U.S. states have passed legislation against them as well.
A growing number of medical experts, including the American College of Pediatricians, say the research does not support the idea that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or genital and breast surgeries benefit the physical or mental health of gender dysphoric children.
Transgender surgeries are not reversible, and both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can affect bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
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A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the federal government from funding or supporting child transgender drugs and surgeries.
U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson granted a temporary restraining order against a pair of Trump orders, one cutting federal funding from doctors who offer children transgender medicalization and the other officially recognizing only male and female sexes.
“This is a population with an extremely higher rate for suicide, poverty, unemployment, drug addiction,” Hurson said during the hearing in federal court in Baltimore.
The judge claimed that stopping transgender drugs and surgeries for children would be “horribly dangerous for anyone, for any care, but particularly for this extremely vulnerable population.”
Trump’s order, signed last month, commits that the United States will not fund or support the “so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
“This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end,” Trump wrote.
The order prompted a slew of hospitals to pump the brakes on transgender medicalization for children, including hospitals in New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Colorado, and Virginia.
The administration is expected to appeal the decision, and the case could end up at the Supreme Court.
Several progressive groups sued the administration over the move. The ACLU and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit on behalf of PFLAG and GLMA, as well as seven anonymous trans-identifying youth under 19.
The attorneys general of Washington state, Oregon, and Minnesota have also sued over Trump’s transgender order in a separate case.
Critics, especially parents and detransitioners, have raised the alarm over transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for gender dysphoric children over the last several years.
In Europe, several countries have already pumped the brakes on these drugs and procedures for children. More than two dozen U.S. states have passed legislation against them as well.
A growing number of medical experts, including the American College of Pediatricians, say the research does not support the idea that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or genital and breast surgeries benefit the physical or mental health of gender dysphoric children.
Transgender surgeries are not reversible, and both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can affect bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
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