Trump wants to boot trans people from a lifesaving program

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Trump wants to boot trans people from a lifesaving program. Queer health groups are fighting back.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/wants-to-boot-trans-people-from-a-lifesaving-program-queer-health-groups-are-fighting-back/ 🔗

Greg Owen (13 June 2026)

National HIV medical associations and providers are challenging the Trump administration's new federal funding guidelines that target transgender identity assisted by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

The new regulations bar organizations that access the decades-old program, including several of the plaintiffs, from acknowledging transgender identity and providing gender-affirming care to patients.

A statement from Lambda Legal that refers to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), explains that "Defendants have adopted a policy that HRSA funding recipients may not acknowledge, affirm, or respect the identities of transgender people, and may not use federal funding in a way that promotes so-called 'gender ideology,' including through the provision of gender-affirming medical care."

The lawsuit alleges that HHS and HRSA violated the Administrative Procedure Act by exceeding their statutory authority and imposing funding conditions that conflict with the program's Congressional statute.

The complaint also challenges the restrictions as "arbitrary" and "capricious," with no "reasoned explanation" beyond the president's so-called "gender ideology" executive order, which, like all similar executive orders, lacks the force of law.

"The Challenged Conditions would require HIV care providers to refuse to acknowledge, affirm, or respect the identities of their transgender patients and would forbid these providers from using Ryan White funding to provide transgender patients with gender-affirming hormone therapy — even though the Ryan White Statute explicitly contemplates such care as an outpatient service provided as part of a patient's primary care," the lawsuit states.

[Devlyn ✅]

Trump
Removes
Urgent
Medical
Protection

.. because of course he does.