A federal judge on Tuesday stopped an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena medical records and confidential information of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care at Boston Children’s Hospital, calling the Justice Department’s investigation of such care improper and “motivated only by bad faith.”

District Judge Myong J. Joun granted the hospital’s request to block a federal subpoena seeking information about its staff, patients and provision of puberty blocking medications and hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria in minors. The Justice Department said in July that it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics “involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children” in investigations of alleged health care fraud and false statements.

A subpoena sent in June to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and made public in a court filing last month requested patients’ birth dates, Social Security numbers and home addresses, as well as “every writing or record of whatever type” from doctors related to the provision of gender-affirming care to adolescents under the age of 19.

The subpoena requested information dating back to January 2020, more than a year before........

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