Two Federal Judges in separate cases have temporarily blocked Trump's Executive order that instructs the HHS to deny funds to hospitals that treat transgender youth.
On February 13 Baltimore District Court Judge Brendan Hurson issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of Trump's executive order that attempts to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19.
On February 14, Judge Lauren J. King of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a temporary restraining order, saying that the president’s order “blatantly discriminated against trans youth.”
That came a day after a federal judge in Baltimore put Mr. Trump’s plan on hold in a separate lawsuit. Neither order is a final decision, but together they signal a setback for the Trump administration’s attempts to prohibit the recognition of transgender identities, the NY Times reports.
The government argued before Judge King that the lawsuit was premature because the agencies that Mr. Trump instructed to carry out his order have yet to do so.
On February 3 the Trump White House in a Press Release identified five hospitals that had curtailed or ended trans-affirming health care, crediting Trump's Executive Order as "promises kept".
