A federal judge is blocking Donald Trump’s administration from restricting gender-affirming healthcare to minors after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that such treatment doesn’t meet “professionally recognized standards.”
Last year, a lawsuit from 19 states and Washington, D.C., challenged Kennedy’s “declaration” that claimed certain forms of affirming care are “unsafe and ineffective.” The policy threatened to punish doctors, hospitals and clinics that support trans youth by blocking them from federal Medicare and Medicaid programs.
