Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest.

HHS acted “with cruelty” in targeting gender-affirming care, judge says

A federal judge voided HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-trans funding policy that led an estimated 40 hospitals to halt gender-affirming care for trans youth. Nineteen states sued, arguing it’s federal overreach to deny Medicare and Medicaid money to hospitals that offer gender-affirming care to minors. “Unserious leaders are unsafe,” Judge Mustafa Kasubhai wrote in a scathing April 18 ruling siding with the plaintiffs.........

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