A federal judge temporarily blocked the executive order of President Donald Trump with the aim of restricting transgender medical care for any person under 19.
Judge Brendan Hurson, from the United States District Court, for the Maryland district, was skeptical about the government’s argument that the order is not a national prohibition of attention, but rather a “general policy directive” and that the plaintiffs, who are teenagers and young adults whose care has been affected by the order, must wait to sue.
“In this situation, it is clear that these plaintiffs have received telephone calls stopping their attention, stopping their appointments, stopping their whole,” Hurson said during Thursday’s audience, adding that the hospitals arrested attention due to the order, which also also It seeks to prohibit federal financing of care related to the transition for minors.
“I don’t know how to argue in a credible that this does not require the cessation of funds for gender statement,” he said.
Joshua Block, lawyer for senior personnel of the LGBTQ and HIV project of the ACLU that represented the plaintiffs, said the executive order had “sown fear among transgender young people and the confusion among their suppliers.”
“Today’s decision should restore access to medical care and protections under the Constitution,” Block said in a statement. “Suppliers who have suspended the medical care of their transgender patients should undoubtedly remain that they can raise these suspensions and continue providing medical care and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funds or worse.”
Harrison Fields, deputy secretary of the White House Deputy Press, said in a statement after the ruling that the executive orders of President Trump “will remain in court because every action of Trump’s administration of Valios de Trump is completely legal.”
“Any legal challenge against him is nothing more than an attempt to undermine the will of the American people, which overwhelmed President Trump to ensure the border, revitalize the economy and restore common sense policies,” Fields said.
He The judge’s temporary restriction order will apply for 14 days. Omar González-Pagan, lawyer from Lambda Legal, who also represents the plaintiffs, said that lawyers plan to request a preliminary judicial order before the restriction order expires.
Days after Trump signed the order last month, hospitals in New York City, Colorado, Virginia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC and Los Angeles, announced that they were suspending or reviewing their attention related to the transition for people under 19 years.
In response, the White House said in a statement that the order “was already having its planned effect, preventing children from being mutilated and sterilized by adults who perpetuated a radical and false statement that they can somehow change the sex of a child “
The American Union of Civil Libertads filed its demand last week on behalf of two transgender young adults that are 18 and five families of Trans Minors. The lawsuit argued that the order, together with another executive order that Trump signed They are transgender.
ACLU also argued that the order that seeks to restrict attention is illegal and unconstitutional because the president does not have the authority to retain federal funds that have been previously approved by Congress.
