Trump sued for intimidating hospitals over gender-affirming care for youth

Seventeen Democratic officials from a variety of states filed suit against the Trump administration in federal court on Aug. 1, accusing it of unlawfully intimidating health care providers into stopping gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

The complaint comes after a month in which at least eight major hospitals and hospital systems — all in states where the care is allowed under state law — announced they were stopping or restricting the care. The latest announcement came Thursday from UI Health in Chicago. Trump’s administration announced in July that it was sending subpoenas to providers and focusing on investigating them for fraud. It later boasted in a news release that hospitals are halting treatment

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