Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump ban on transgender surgeries for minors
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender medical surgeries and interventions for individuals under the age of 19.
The move comes after a group of seven families with transgender-identifying children filed a lawsuit challenging the executive order earlier this month.
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Judge Brendan Hurson granted the plaintiffs a temporary restraining order on Thursday following a hearing for the case in a federal court in Baltimore.
According to the Washington Post, Hurson reportedly described young people who identify as transgender as “a population with an extremely higher rate for suicide, poverty, unemployment, [and] drug addiction” during the hearing and called the executive order’s imperative to immediately end transgender medical interventions for them “horribly dangerous.”
The temporary block will remain in effect for two weeks, though according to an NBC News report, the plaintiffs’ attorneys are planning to ask for a preliminary injunction before the time is up on the restraining order.
