Democrats from across the country sue... for trying to end trans health care

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Democrats from across the country sue administration for trying to end trans health care

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/democrats-from-across-the-country-sue-administration-for-trying-to-end-trans-health-care/

Daniel Villarreal (4 Aug 2025)

A group of 15 Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit last Friday, suing the current presidential administration for using "unlawful" executive orders to pressure state medical providers to end gender-affirming care for transgender youth, even though the states' statutes and anti-discrimination laws protect the care.

The plaintiffs say the president's actions violate the Constitution's 10th Amendment, separating state and federal powers, and seek to "eliminate medically necessary care for transgender adolescents," and thus should be declared unlawful and "vacated in their entirety."

The lawsuit accuses the administration of "intimidating" gender-affirming healthcare providers into ending care under "threats of civil and criminal prosecution under laws unconnected to the legal provision of such care. The "threats to providers' "licenses, livelihoods, and liberty" have cowed hospitals, clinics, universities, and individual providers into ending the care.

"Both Executive Orders use inaccurate, cruel, demeaning, and inflammatory language designed to deter and interfere with the provision and regulation of medical care," the lawsuit states. "These threats [against medical providers] have no basis in law. No federal law prohibits, much less criminalizes, the provision or receipt of gender-affirming care for transgender adolescents. In fact, federal healthcare programs have reimbursed the provision of such care for years."