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A federal judge in Manhattan has temporarily blocked the Department of Justice (DOJ) from using grand jury subpoenas to obtain medical records of patients who have received gender-affirming care as minors at NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and other New York City hospitals.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla granted a temporary restraining order after several families and patients sued to block a grand jury subpoena that demanded the medical records of all transgender minors who have received gender-affirming care at the New York City hospitals since 2020. The order blocks the subpoena until the case’s next hearing on July 8.

Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender youth and directing the DOJ to investigate doctors and hospitals that provide such care.

Failla said that the executive order was one of many issued by Trump “that sought to identify, to demonize, and ultimately to eradicate an entire population of transgender people.”

The judge also pointed out that the Trump administration had previously issued many other subpoenas prior to this grand jury subpoena, and they had all been partly or fully shut down.

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