The order on the military has already been challenged by transgender rights groups.
Families of transgender children on Tuesday asked a federal court to block US President Donald Trump’s order to end all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids gender transitions for people younger than 19.
Trump, a Republican, said in the Jan. 28 order that it is “the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.
The order on the military has already been challenged by transgender rights groups. The other has been challenged in two separate lawsuits by transgender women incarcerated in federal prisons who face transfer to men’s prisons, one of whom has won a temporary restraining order blocking her transfer. Republicans in more than half of the 50 states have passed laws or policies that ban gender-affirming care for minors, some of which have been blocked or overturned by the courts. A challenge to Tennessee’s ban has been heard by the US Supreme Court, which has yet to issue a ruling that could determine the legality of such bans nationwide.
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