California families sue to stop Trump DOJ from obtaining trans kids' records via Texas grand juryhttps://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/lawsuit-stanford-transgender-care-subpoena 🔗Christopher Wiggins (29 May 2026)
A group of California families with transgender children is asking a federal court to block the Trump administration from obtaining confidential medical records through a Texas grand jury subpoena.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenges a subpoena issued by federal prosecutors in Texas seeking records from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. The families argue that the Department of Justice is attempting to accomplish through criminal process what it has repeatedly failed to achieve through civil and administrative investigations, including access to the identities, diagnoses, treatment histories, and medical decisions of transgender youth and their families.
The case comes just days after hospitals across the country disclosed that they had received criminal grand jury subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas seeking records related to gender-affirming care. Earlier this month, NYU Langone Health confirmed it had received such a subpoena, prompting protests from LGBTQ+ advocates and renewed concerns that the federal government was attempting to build a nationwide database of transgender patients, families, and providers.
