Judge Issues TRO Pausing Trump’s Gender-Affirming Care Funding Ban

The federal judge in Maryland has ordered an emergency temporary restraining order (TRO) on the Trump administration’s directive to withhold all federal funding from hospitals and other entities that provide gender-affirming care to patients under 19, the latest court to put a pause on one of the administration’s policy agenda priorities. Baltimore Judge Brendan Abell Hurson issued the ruling from the bench in a hearing Thursday (Feb. 13) and will follow up with a written order, according to a Politico...