A Second Judge Blocks Trump’s Anti-Trans Health Care Orders

metroweekly.com:

a pair of executive orders from President Donald Trump seeking to criminalize the provision of gender-affirming health care to transgender youth.U.S.

District Judge Brendan Hurson, of the District of Maryland, granted a preliminary injunction to the families of several transgender young adults and adolescents whose access to gender-affirming care was disrupted by Trump’s orders.

Those families are joined by the pro-LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG National and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals.Trump’s executive orders, issued earlier this year, threaten to prosecute medical providers who prescribe gender-affirming treatments to anyone under the age of 19, yank funding from institutions or hospitals that provide such treatments, as well as any entity that promotes so-called “gender ideology,” and bar federal insurance programs like Medicaid and TRICARE from covering the cost of hormones, puberty blockers, or surgical interventions.