More than a dozen states sue Trump administration to block trans care investigations

Source: NBC News

Aug. 1, 2025, 12:38 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 1, 2025, 2:38 PM EDT


Officials in 16 states and Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit Friday to block the Trump administration’s investigations into hospitals and doctors who provide transition-related care to minors.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, argues that the administration, by threatening to prosecute providers, is trying to institute a national ban on puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries for transgender minors even though Congress has enacted no such federal ban.

“The federal government is running a cruel and targeted harassment campaign against providers who offer lawful, lifesaving care to children,” New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is leading the coalition of states in the suit, said in a statement. “This administration is ruthlessly targeting young people who already face immense barriers just to be seen and heard, and are putting countless lives at risk in the process. In New York and nationwide, we will never stop fighting for the dignity, safety, and basic rights of the transgender community.”

More than half of states have laws that restrict or completely ban transition care for minors. Care is legal in all of the states that joined Friday’s complaint. They are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as Washington, D.C.

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