"A Massive Victory": DOJ Drops Demands for Medical Records of LA Trans Minors

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

"A Massive Victory": DOJ Drops Demands for Medical Records of LA Trans Minors

https://www.them.us/story/doj-medical-records-chla-minors 🔗

Samantha Riedel (26 Jan 2026)

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its demands for the medical records and personal information of transgender minors treated at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA), under the terms of a settlement filed last week.

CHLA was one of roughly 20 hospitals subpoenaed by the DOJ last summer, as Trump administration officials sought to seize a broad range of documents related to gender-affirming medical care and those who receive it. According to court documents, the DOJ subpoena originally sought "[d]ocuments sufficient to identify each patient [...] who was prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy" since January 2020, as well as records about minor patients' diagnoses and their guardians' authorization for treatment. Several current and former trans CHLA patients sued, asking the court to quash the subpoena on the grounds that it violated their privacy rights.

The new settlement agreement, filed January 22, withdraws many of the DOJ's demands for those records. CHLA will redact, "at minimum," all identifying information of trans minors and their guardians — including their names, addresses, dates of treatment, and biometric data — from documents released to the DOJ, per the agreement.

"This is a massive victory for every family that refused to be intimidated into backing down," said Khadijah Silver, Director of Gender Justice & Health Equity at Lawyers for Good Government (one of the legal groups which represented the plaintiffs) in a press release last week.

[Lori Dee ✅]

"This is a massive victory for every family that refused to be intimidated into backing down,"

Except that they didn't "back down", they settled. The records still get released. And for what purpose? Why does the DOJ care about medications and treatment records, even if it is only the number of times prescribed?

Medical treatment of any kind is between the patient and the provider. It is no one else's business. I don't see this as a win.