Judge blocks Trump DOJ’s latest effort to obtain medical records of trans minors

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Judge blocks Trump DOJ's latest effort to obtain medical records of transgender minors

https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/judge-blocks-trans-care-subpoenas 🔗

Christopher Wiggins (9 Jun 2026)

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from obtaining confidential medical records belonging to transgender youth and their families, intervening just one day before federal prosecutors sought to force a California children's hospital to turn over the documents.

In an emergency order issued Monday night, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts directed Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford not to produce additional records sought through a federal grand jury subpoena and barred the government from taking further action to enforce similar demands while the court considers pending motions in the case.

The order came after families of transgender youth filed a renewed request for emergency relief in Z.A. v. Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, a lawsuit challenging the government's efforts to obtain patient records related to gender-affirming care.

Pitts wrote that Stanford's children's hospital "shall not produce additional records" responsive to portions of the subpoena and that the government "shall not take further action to enforce any grand jury subpoena" seeking the private health information of members of the proposed class. The judge cited legal precedent allowing courts to preserve their jurisdiction when disclosure could effectively moot a case before it is resolved.

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[Lori Dee ✅]

We know that the only reason they want the records is for their database. There is no valid reason for the government to want any medical records. A court could request them for a case like insurance fraud or malpractice, but that is not what is happening here.

HIPAA is a federal law that prohibits the unauthorized disclosure of personal medical records. However, it has an exception for law enforcement subpoenas. That is the loophole they are using to target transgender children.