Sixteen states sue White House over healthcare access for transgender youth | Trump administration

Sixteen States are continuing the Trump administration to defend transgender access for young people, which quickly eroded in the United States due to threats from the federal government.

Democratic prosecutors of California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Connecticut direct the trial, announced on Friday, which calls into question the president’s efforts to eradicate vital medical treatment for young trans.

The complaint targets one of the first decrees of the president issued in January, which described puberty blockers and hormone therapy as “chemical and surgical mutilation”, called federal funds to retain hospitals that provide treatments and suggested that the American Ministry of Justice could investigate doctors. These treatments affirming the genre, accessible by a small fraction of young people in the United States, have been the level of care for years approved by the main American medical associations.

Under the intensification of threats that hospitals could lose federal funding and increasing fears that providers can be prosecuted criminally, a number of large institutions have suddenly ended the care affirmed by the sexes for young trans.

Repression has made families rush for alternatives, especially in blue states, long considered as sanctuaries for LGBTQ +rights, where clinics and legislators had previously assured young people that they would be protected from the agenda of Donald Trump.

Last month, the children’s hospital in Los Angeles, one of the largest and largest institutions in the country to serve Trans children, closed its healthcare center after three decades, citing threats of funding from the federal government.

The other institutions that recently fell the care services affirmed by the sexes for young Trans include Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona, Stanford Medicine, Denver Health, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania and the National Children’s Hospital in Washington DC. Some have stopped surgeries for patients under 19, which are rare, while others have also ended the hormone and puberty blockers.

In July, the Ministry of Justice also announced that it had sent assignments to more than 20 doctors and clinics who provide care for young people affirming sex, a decision that has sent shocks among providers and raised alarms that patient information could be shared with the federal government.

The prosecution notes that the administration has already launched criminal investigations and explicitly threatened providers in California, Colorado and Massachusetts and that officials “demanded many data, including patient medical records”.

Blue States also dispute a June note from Brett Shumate, assistant American prosecutor general, who ordered the Civil Division of the Ministry of Justice to “use all the resources available to prioritize doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical societies and other appropriate entities” which provide care that assert themselves between sexes.

Republican legislators in more than 25 states have decided to restrict the health care for young people in recent years. But treatments remain legal in other parts of the country, and states such as California have anti-discrimination laws that explicitly protect services.

The complainants argue that Trump’s actions should be declared illegal, alleging that his order goes beyond the federal authority. California’s prosecutor General Rob Bonta also challenged Trump’s children as a person under 19, affecting adults aged 18 to care, saying that administration guidelines oblige hospitals to violate state laws.

Bonta said that the refusal of this treatment has proven to be aggravated mental health results, including increased rate of depression, anxiety and suicidal ideas. “Trump and Bondi are not trained health professionals. They are not qualified at all to give medical advice.

Quoting the comments of a parent of a trans treated child in a center that stops, Bonta said: “This closure will be life and death for young people who can no longer get the care they need.”

“What would you do if your child received a gender dysphoria diagnosis? I would fight for my child every day,” added William Tong, the Connecticut Attorney General. “We are fighting for … parents who just want to do their best for their children, as we all do, to help them live their most serious and truest life.”

Prosecutors General of Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia and the Governor of Pennsylvania.

The White House and the Ministry of Justice were contacted for comments.

The trial comes after the United States Supreme Court confirmed the ban on Tennessee on health care of young people.

“Hormone therapy really saves lives,” said Eli, a 16 -year -old who lost his health care in Los Angeles, in a recent Guardian interview. “I want people to understand that they are doing much more harm than they could imagine – that so many lives will be injured and lost and so many torn people.”