Judge Blocks Trump From Blocking Healthcare

Earlier this month Trump issued one of his Executive Order blocking federal funds from any hospital give healthcare to trans youth. A judge said no you don't!

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump order restricting trans care for youths

The president signed a sweeping executive order last month that sought to further restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for those younger than 19.

NBC News

By Jo Yurcaba and Fiona Glisson

February 13, 2025

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict transgender health care for anyone under 19.

U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson of Maryland was skeptical of the government’s argument that the order is not a nationwide ban on care but rather a “general policy directive” and that the plaintiffs — who are trans teens and young adults whose care has been affected by the order — must wait to sue. 

“In this situation, it is clear that these plaintiffs have received phone calls stopping their care, stopping their appointments, stopping their everything,” Hurson said at the hearing Thursday, adding that hospitals stopped care because of the order, which also seeks to prohibit federal funding of transition-related care for minors.  

“I don’t know how you can credibly argue that this is not demanding the cessation of funding for gender affirming care,” he said.

The Washington Post reported that the judge said...

“This is a population with an extremely higher rate for suicide, poverty, unemployment, drug addiction,” Hurson said during the hearing. Abruptly stopping their health treatments, he said, would be “horribly dangerous for anyone, for any care, but particularly for this extremely vulnerable population.”

There are also other cases being heard around the country on Trump's EO.

The Washington Post went on to write,

The Trump administration’s moves have created a crisis for health-care providers across the country, Block [An ACLU attorney] said, because officials are threatening to pull funds “immediately” for any provider offering gender-affirming care. It is forcing some to choose between treating transgender patients and other classes of patients, he said.

“What makes these orders so pernicious is the terrorizing effect they’re having on hospitals,” Block said, describing the administration’s moves as “holding a gun to their heads.”

You know that these and other Executive Orders are going all the way to the Supreme Court... because that is what Trump wants to happen. And the Supreme Court will be a crapshoot, your guess is just as good as mine about the outcome.