A judge provisionally suspended the executive order of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who limits access to gender statement medical care for transgender people under 19.
A federal judge temporarily blocked Thursday the recent executive order of US President Donald Trump that restricts gender statement medical care for transgender people under 19 years.
The ruling comes after this month a lawsuit was filed in the name of families with transgender or non -binary children, which allege that their medical care has already been compromised by the president's order. A national group of relatives of people LGBTQ+ and a doctors' organization are also demanding in judicial challenge, one of the many demands that oppose a series of executive orders that Trump has issued in his attempt to reverse the policies of former president Joe Biden .
Judge Brendan Hurson, who was nominated by Biden, accepted the application for the plaintiffs for the issuance of a temporary restriction order after a hearing in a federal court in Baltimore. The failure, in force for 14 days, in essence suspends Trump's guideline while the case advances. The restriction order could also be extended.
Trump's executive order “seems even to deny that this population exists, or deserves to exist,” said Hurson.
Shortly after assuming the position, Trump signed an executive order that orders the insurance programs administered by the federal government to exclude the coverage of gender statement care. That includes Medicaid, who covers these services in some states, and Tricare for military families. Trump's order also urged the Department of Justice to seek vigorously litigation and bill to oppose the practice.
The lawsuit includes several stories of families on canceled appointments after medical institutions reacted to the new guideline.
The lawyers of the plaintiffs argue that Trump's executive order is “illegal and unconstitutional” because they try to retain federal funds previously authorized by Congress, and because it violates the laws against discrimination while violating the rights of parents.
Like the challenges to state prohibitions to gender affirmation care, demand also claims that policy is discriminatory because it allows federal funds to cover the same treatments when they are not used for gender transition.
Some hospitals immediately suspended gender statement attention, including recipes for puberty blockers and hormonal therapy, while evaluating how the order affects them.
Trump's approach on the subject represents abrupt change Regarding the Biden governmentwhich sought to explicitly extend civil rights protections to transgender people. Trump has used strong language by opposing gender statement care, falsely declaring that “medical professionals are mutilating and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false statement that adults can change the sex of a child”.
Large medical groups such as the American Medical Association and the American Pediatrics Academy support access to gender statement care.
Young people who identify persistently with a gender different from the sex assigned to birth are evaluated in the first instance by a team of professionals. Some may attempt a social transition, which implies changing hairstyle or pronouns. Some could also receive puberty blockers or hormones later. Gender change surgery is extremely unusual among minors.