A New York judge on Wednesday temporarily paused a subpoena of a New York hospital system from federal prosecutors in Texas seeking identifiable medical information of young transgender patients. Though only the first brake put on an apparent criminal probe of gender-affirming care to minors at NYU Langone Health, the decision counts as a small victory in a legal landscape growing increasingly hostile to transgender youth.
Judge Katherine Polk Failla, an Obama appointee, issued the temporary restraining order the day after hearing oral argument. She described the Trump administration’s request for sensitive medical records over a six-year period of a “uniquely vulnerable group” of patients as “most egregious” and unconstitutional.
