"The Trump administration has been forced to partially abandon its attempt to obtain the personal medical records of thousands of young transgender patients. Families and patients in Los Angeles, California, secured a major win last week after the Department of Justice agreed to stop pursuing the documents containing the personal information of over 3,000 patients. The US government announced in July last year that it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to clinics across the country over what it called an investigation into "healthcare fraud.""
"Attorney general Pam Bondi said at the time that it had demanded details, such as the names, birth dates, social security numbers, and addresses, of trans young people and their parents/guardians in order to quell what she described as "a warped ideology." The department agreed to rescind subpoenas against the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) last Thursday (20 January) after seven families with trans children sued the department in November."
"Plaintiffs argued ahead of the ruling that the Justice Department had not given sufficient evidence to justify its investigation and was requesting private information without "any probable cause." "It was basically a fishing expedition," Khadijah Silver, director of Gender Justice & Health Equity at Lawyers for Good Government, which represented the families, said. "Without any probable cause, they did not have the authority to be seeking medical information.""
The Department of Justice sought medical records and identifying information for thousands of young transgender patients via more than 20 subpoenas to clinics. It demanded names, birth dates, social security numbers, and addresses, and framed the effort as an investigation into 'healthcare fraud.' Seven families with trans children sued after subpoenas to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles; the DOJ agreed to rescind requests for identifying documents at CHLA. The DOJ has not abandoned all legal efforts but retreated from personal-identifying demands. Plaintiffs argued lack of probable cause and are seeking full dismissal of the case.
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