Stopping treatments all of a sudden ‘horribly dangerous for anyone, for any care, but particularly for this extremely vulnerable population,’ judge says. A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order restricting health care for transgender youth in the latest example of the judiciary halting the president’s actions. Families of transgender children and PFLAG sued the Trump administration on February 4, calling the executive orders “unlawful and unconstitutional.” The plaintiffs asked for an injunction to block enforcement their enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson blocked it from taking effect during a hearing Thursday. “This is a population with an extremely higher rate for suicide, poverty, unemployment, drug addiction,” Hurson said, according to the Washington Post. Abruptly stopping their health treatments, would be “horribly dangerous for anyone, for any care, but particularly for this extremely vulnerable population.”.
