California is leading a coalition of more than a dozen states suing the Trump administration over its restrictions on gender-affirming health care , Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Friday morning.

Bonta said President Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s orders and directives restricting that care to people under the age of 19 impinge on states’ laws that protect their residents’ access to gender-affirming care.

The lawsuit is joined by 15 other states and the District of Columbia.

Bonta framed the issue as a life-and-death matter, citing the higher rates of suicide and other forms of self-harm among young people whose gender expression doesn’t match their identity.

The Trump administration’s “demands that our healthcare providers discriminate against transgender individu

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