In a memo issued last spring, Attorney General Pam Bondi rallied federal law enforcement to join President Trump’s crusade against pediatric gender-affirming care. “Gender ideology, masked as science,” she wrote, “has infected an entire generation of children.” Three months later, the Justice Department announced that it had issued more than 20 subpoenas to clinics and doctors that provide medication or surgery to young trans people.
The department demanded extensive patient records including names, Social Security numbers, and diagnoses, according to the subpoenas that have been made public. At least six have been quashed by federal judges, while two more were limited in scope. But the DOJ appealed five of those rulings, and oral arguments in the first of these cases, against the telehealth company QueerDoc, are set to take place Friday in a Ninth Circuit court in Seattle.
