On Thursday, a federal judge in Maryland temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting sex changes for minors. The lawsuit was brought forth by the ACLU on behalf of LGBTQ advocacy groups and young people who identify as transgender.
US District Judge Brendan Hurson issued a 14-day restraining order placing the executive order on pause, the Associated Press reported. Hurson, a Biden appointee, said that the order “seems to deny that this population even exists, or deserves to exist.”
In the emergency motion, lawyers wrote that “Over the past week, hospitals across the country have abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under the age of nineteen, cancelling appointments and turning away some patients who have waited years to receive medically necessary care for gender dysphoria,” and argued that the orders signed by Trump are “unlawful and unconstitutional.”
“Under the Constitution, it is Congress, not the President, who is vested with the power of the purse. President Trump does not have unilateral power to withhold federal funds that Congress has authorized and signed into law, and he does not have the power to impose conditions on the use of funds when Congress has not delegated to him the power to do so.”
The lawsuit took issue with two executive orders that Trump signed: the Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation order and the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government order. […]
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