A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the federal government from funding or supporting child transgender drugs and surgeries.
U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson granted a temporary restraining order against a pair of Trump orders, one cutting federal funding from doctors who offer children transgender medicalization and the other officially recognizing only male and female sexes.
“This is a population with an extremely higher rate for suicide, poverty, unemployment, drug addiction,” Hurson said during the hearing in federal court in Baltimore.
The judge claimed that stopping transgender drugs and surgeries for children would be “horribly dangerous for anyone, for any care, but particularly for this extremely vulnerable population.”
Trump’s order, signed last month, commits that the United States will not fund or support the…
