Trump's DOJ escalates its gender affirming care attack on minors

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(Salon) As of last week, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has begun issuing criminal subpoenas seeking information on gender-affirming care administered to minors. This escalation, critics argue, is the latest step in a larger effort to push transgender Americans further out of public life.

“They are asking for identifiable patient records, which should scare every American, whether they’re trans or not,” Tyler Hack, the founder and executive director of Christopher Street Project, a PAC boosting candidates committed to protecting trans rights, told Salon. “Everyone relies on patient privacy in the relationship between them and their provider, and that’s something the Trump administration wants to throw out the window because they want to look through our medical records and decide what they like and don’t like.”

Last week, NYU Langone Health informed its patients that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas had issued criminal subpoenas to multiple medical institutions seeking information on providers and every minor to whom it had administered gender-affirming care in recent years.

So far NYU Langone Health is the only hospital system to publicly disclose its receipt of the subpoena, done in compliance with New York’s shield law that requires disclosure within 30 days. The hospital’s receipt of a grand jury subpoena suggests that the DOJ has launched a criminal investigation into providers, which introduces the possibility of future jail time, prosecution and even charges. It marks the first known time the DOJ has sought such information on gender-affirming care for a criminal probe. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/05/22/trumps-doj-escalates-its-gender-affirming-care-attack-on-minors/