Title: ACLU Pledges To Challenge Trump Admin In Court Over National Trans Youth Care Ban Rule Link To: Article 🔗 [Link: erininthemorning.com/p/aclu-pledges-to-challenge-trump-admin/] Author: Erin Reed
Date: 23 December 2025
Summary of Article:The article discusses a proposed rule by the Trump administration (RIN 0938-AV87) that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth in any hospital system participating in Medicaid or Medicare, regardless of funding source. It outlines the scope, impact, legal challenges and public response.
"The proposed rule, RIN 0938-AV87, would bar any hospital system that participates in Medicaid or Medicare from offering gender-affirming care to transgender youth, regardless of whether that care is paid for with federal funds or privately."
"It would represent the most sweeping executive overreach yet by the administration in its campaign against transgender people."
"These gratuitous proposals are cruel and unconstitutional attacks on the rights of transgender youth and their families," said Chase Strangio, Co-Director of the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project.
"The latest proposals from the administration would force doctors to choose between their ethical obligations to their patients and the threat of losing federal funding."
"The rule would result in roughly 87 percent of transgender youth losing access to treatment."
"Section 1801 of the Social Security Act explicitly bars the federal government from using Medicaid to 'exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine.'"
"Over the next 60 days, this rule can still be challenged, delayed and fought—if people show up and refuse to let it move forward quietly."
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