{"id":331130,"date":"2026-08-27T17:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331130\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:06:40","slug":"trump-appointed-judges-reject-white-houses-latest-effort-to-obtain-medical-records-of-trans-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331130\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-appointed judges reject White House\u2019s latest effort to obtain medical records of trans youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal appeals court panel consisting of a majority of Trump appointees dealt a setback<\/a> to the White House\u2019s efforts to obtain medical records of trans youth in New York City on Aug. 26.<\/p>\n

The three-judge panel of the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan denied the Department of Justice\u2019s request to stay a lower court order that shielded the records of trans youth from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Two of the three judges \u2014 Richard Sullivan and William J. Nardini \u2014 were appointed by Trump during his first term, while the third judge, Alison Nathan, was appointed by President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b\u201cThis is a tremendous relief to New York families who have to navigate the fear of their private medical information being seized by a federal government hostile to their children,\u201d Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU\u2019s LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project, said in a written statement.\u00a0 \u201cThese subpoenas are an unwarranted effort to violate the hallowed relationship between a parent and their child\u2019s doctor in a transparent effort to end medical care for transgender young people and target transgender people for discrimination. We will continue to oppose this effort by the administration and we will always stand up for the privacy and autonomy rights of those who are targeted for discrimination by the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest legal development comes three months after NYU Langone was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in Texas seeking the identities and health information about minors who were treated for gender dysphoria at the hospital between January of 2020 and May of 2026. Even before that point, the Trump administration had been pursuing the same kind of health information from hospitals around the country, while also pushing executive orders in a bid to force providers to cave to the administration\u2019s demands to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors.<\/p>\n

In June, the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Lambda Legal joined together to file a lawsuit on behalf of three families with trans youth and two trans adults who were minors within the 2020-2026 timeframe targeted by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

A district judge subsequently granted their bids for a preliminary injunction, which restricted the Trump administration\u2019s Department of Justice from obtaining their health information via subpoenas targeting NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and other providers. The plaintiffs have maintained that the DOJ\u2019s efforts to obtain the information violate their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure and Fifth Amendment rights to informational privacy.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b\u201cToday\u2019s order by the court of appeals preserves the district court\u2019s order prohibiting the government from seeking the identities and sensitive health information of transgender young people and their families who sought care in New York City,\u201d Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, senior counsel and healthcare strategist at Lambda Legal, said in a written statement. \u201cThe government cannot weaponize the legal system and the use of subpoenas, whether through a grand jury or otherwise, to collect the most private medical information of transgender young people and their families, in violation of the right to privacy guaranteed by our Constitution. Every family should be able to make healthcare decisions without fear of political interference or exposure. While this fight is far from over, we are grateful for today\u2019s decision and will continue fighting for the rights and privacy of transgender people and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest news comes just days after a panel of the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit voted 2-1<\/a> to reverse a decision blocking the DOJ\u2019s subpoena of QueerDocLLP, a website that provides referrals for gender-affirming care, in an attempt to obtain information about their clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal appeals court panel consisting of a majority of Trump appointees dealt a setback to the White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-331130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}