Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) on Tuesday denounced a recent decision by the University of Michigan’s hospital system to suspend gender-affirming care for transgender youth, calling the move “cowardly” and possibly "illegal."

Michigan Medicine said Monday it would no longer offer gender-affirming care to patients younger than 19, in line with a January executive order from President Trump. The health care provider said it would continue serving transgender youth through “all appropriate care other than puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones.”

A statement from the university’s public affairs department said Michigan Medicine was one of several institutions to have received a subpoena from the Justice Department as part of the federal government’s investigation into gender-affirming care for minors. The department announced in July it sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics “involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children” in investigations of “healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.”

A federal subpoena sent in June to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and made public in a court........

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