Six California families with transgender children filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the Department of Justice from obtaining confidential medical records through a grand jury subpoena. The subpoena, issued by federal prosecutors in Texas, seeks records from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. The families argue the government is using criminal process to obtain information it failed to secure through civil and administrative investigations, including identities, diagnoses, treatment histories, and medical decisions. They say they learned of the subpoena only through public reports and were not notified that their children’s records and parental consent forms were sought. The case follows disclosures that multiple hospitals received similar subpoenas related to gender-affirming care.
"A group of California families with transgender children is asking a federal court to block the administration from obtaining confidential medical records through a grand jury subpoena."
"The , filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenges a subpoena issued by federal prosecutors in Texas seeking records from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. The families argue that the Department of Justice is attempting to accomplish through criminal process what it has repeatedly failed to achieve through civil and administrative investigations, including access to the identities, diagnoses, treatment histories, and medical decisions of transgender youth and their families."
"According to the complaint, the six California families learned about Stanford's subpoena only through public reports about similar demands sent to other hospitals. They were never notified that federal prosecutors sought records containing their children's identities, diagnoses, treatment histories, and parental consent forms."
"The plaintiffs include parents of transgender children who received a range of care at Stanford, from counseling and psychological support to prescription medications. One family's child, according to the complaint, received only counseling and social support services, a detail the families argue demonstrates the breadth of the government'"
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