SEATTLE (AP) – President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw federal funding from institutions that provide gender care to young transgender people will remain long blocked on Friday by virtue of a federal judge in Seattle on Friday.
The judge of the American district court Lauren King previously granted a two -week ban order after the Democratic prosecutors of Washington, Oregon and Minnesota continued the Trump administration – Colorado has since joined the case.
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King’s temporary order expired on Friday, and it organized arguments that day before publishing a preliminary injunction blocking most of Trump’s plan pending a final decision on the merits of the case.
The judge noted that the states were missing on one point: the protections of the order against female genital mutilation. The female genital mutilations are already illegal in the four states which are part of the trial, and the judge said that the file “was devoid of all proof” that the complainants plan to carry out such procedures.
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown praised the decision.
“The Constitution’s contempt for the Constitution is obvious and intentional,” he said in a statement. “But again, states and courts have intensified to assert the rule of law and the values that keep us together as a nation.”
An e-mail was sent to the White House to ask for comments.
Two Trump’s decrees are involved in the case.
One, “defending women against the extremism of gender ideology”, calls for eliminating federal money from programs that “promote gender ideology”.
The other “protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation” calls on the federal government to reduce research and educational subsidies to establishments, including medical schools and hospitals, which provide sex care for people under 19. Several hospitals in the country have ceased to provide care, including puberty blockers and hormonal treatments, after order.
Medicaid’s programs in some states cover the care -assembly care, and Trump’s “children protecting” suggests that practice could end. This also raises the prospect that health professionals could be criminally charged to provide gender care under a law that prohibits medically useless genital mutilation of minor women – a concept that Trump pursuing states call the repugnant and legally without support.
Young people who constantly identify themselves as a sex that differs from their gender attributed to birth – a condition called gender dysphoria – are much more likely to suffer from serious depression and to commit suicide if they do not receive treatment, which may include the evaluation of a team of health professionals; a social transition, such as changing a hairstyle or pronouns; And finally puberty blockers or hormones. Surgery is extremely rare for minors.
In her decision on Friday, the judge said that the order was not limited to children or irreversible treatments and that he does not target medical interventions carried out on Cisgenres children.
“In fact, its inadequate” adjustment of means “would prevent medical suppliers funded by the federal government from providing medical treatments necessary for young transgender people which are not completely linked to gender identity,” she wrote. “For example, a Cisgenre adolescent could obtain puberty blockers from a supplier such as a component of cancer treatment, but a transgender adolescent with the same care plan against cancer could not.”
Friday, in his arguments, the deputy prosecutor of Washington William McGInty stressed the urgency of the issue.
“There will be young people who will take their lives if they can no longer receive this care,” he said.
The decree uses a derisory terminology – words such as “mutilation”, “sterilization” and “mutilation” – which contradicts what is typical of the care affirmed by the sexes in the United States. These care is widely approved by the medical community, notably the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
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King, the judge of Seattle, prosecutor of the Ministry of Grilled Justice Vinita Andrapalliyal in court on the meaning and effect of Trump’s decrees.
“What is gender dysphoria?” She asked.
“Your honor, I am not a medical supplier,” replied Andrapalliyal.
“It’s one thing, isn’t it?” King asked. “Is it a medically recognizable diagnosis?”
“I have no official position on this subject,” said Andrapalliyal.
The judge continued to put pressure, saying that she “was looking for a legitimate interest from the government” which would justify Trump’s orders.
The four Democratic prosecutors who pursue Seattle argued that orders violate equal protections on rights, separation of powers and the right of states to regulate issues not delegated to the federal government.
The Trump administration challenged these complaints in legal files. “The authority of the president of directing the agencies subordinate to the implementation of his program, subject to the own legal authorities of these agencies, is well established,” wrote lawyers of the Ministry of Justice.
In addition to orders on access to health care and the definition of sexes as immutable, Trump also signed orders that open the door to the ban on transgender people in military service; Establish new rules on how schools can teach gender; And would prohibit transgender athletes from participating in the sports of girls and women.
Many legal challenges have been filed.