{"id":55411,"date":"2025-08-08T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55411\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:21:10","slug":"the-blue-state-hospitals-carrying-out-trumps-anti-trans-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55411\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue-State Hospitals Carrying Out Trump\u2019s Anti-Trans Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still, as trans kids and advocates had predicted and feared, certain health care providers began complying with Trump\u2019s order<\/a> in advance. Some trans kids were dropped from care months ago. In February, several thousand community members protested at NYU-Langone, demanding<\/a> that hospital leadership restore medical transition care for adolescents. In April, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced<\/a> that the Justice Department would investigate providers of youth gender-affirming care\u2014by misusing a law against female genital mutilation. The Federal Trade Commission tried another tactic, reframing<\/a> health care such as hormones and puberty blockers\u2014if offered to young trans people\u2014as \u201cfraud,\u201d and threatening their own investigations.<\/p>\n

Finally, last week, after months of such threats, the Department of Justice subpoenaed<\/a> UPMC\u2014one of the \u201cmore than twenty\u201d subpoenas the department said<\/a> it has issued. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro joined a lawsuit challenging these subpoenas, filed<\/a> August 1 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alongside California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. The lawsuit charges the Trump administration with targeting trans people \u201crelentlessly\u201d and \u201cunlawfully,\u201d refusing them \u201clongstanding, medically necessary, often lifesaving care.\u201d The administration has done this, the lawsuit continues, by intimidating providers with threats of civil and criminal prosecution. It adds, \u201cThese threats have no basis in law.\u201d In fact, this intimidation has \u201ccoerced\u201d hospitals and health care providers to potentially violate their state\u2019s own antidiscrimination laws.<\/p>\n

At UPMC, staff were advised to preserve patient records, among other documents that could be responsive to the subpoena, according to an email obtained by The New Republic. (The UPMC legal staff listed as the senders of this email did not respond to a request to authenticate it before publication.) Staff were also told not to speak about the subpoena. \u201cWe are treating the existence of this subpoena as confidential to reduce the potential impact on our patients and employees,\u201d wrote Mark Tamburri, UPMC\u2019s chief legal officer. \u201cIn anticipation of potential future investigations and\/or litigation, I am directing you to preserve materials beyond the scope of the current subpoena.\u201d Documents to be preserved included \u201cpatient records, including identity, clinical indications, diagnoses, assessments, informed consent, patient intake, parent or guardian authorization, disclosure of off-label use, disclosure of potential risks, adverse events, side effects, or medically unfavorable consequences or outcomes,\u201d as well as \u201cdiagnosis\/ICD codes and use of those codes (e.g., for transsexualism, gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, gender identified disorder, or potential alternatives).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still, as trans kids and advocates had predicted and feared, certain health care providers began complying with Trump\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-55411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}