Anonymous
8/4/2025, 10:38:26 PM No.40607490
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/16-states-plus-washington-dc-launch
>Sixteen attorneys general from across the country, plus Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, filed a landmark federal lawsuit on August 1. The ensuing legal battle could determine the fate of states’ rights to uphold policies protecting trans-affirming health care.
>“Since taking office on January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump and his administration have relentlessly, cruelly, and unlawfully targeted transgender individuals,” the complaint reads. “The result is an atmosphere of fear and intimidation experienced by transgender individuals, their families and caregivers, and the medical professionals who seek only to provide necessary, lawful care to their patients.”
>The suit was brought by the attorneys general of fifteen states plus Washington DC. Shapiro signed on in lieu of Pennsylvania’s own AG, David Sunday, a Republican.
>This comes after the last eight months have been flooded with anti-trans animus in policy and law—Trump’s executive orders, as well as the directives and memos from his lackeys across federal agencies, have attacked everything from trans-affirming health care to trans girls in sports.
>However, nobody has been successfully prosecuted for the supposed “crime” of providing trans people with evidence-based and life-saving care, and for good reason: There is no federal law prohibiting it. Instead, the legal system has become a political machine used to terrorize Americans. Trump has scared health care systems into compliance using a blunt object: fear.
>“Under the cumulative weight of these targeted actions against medical care providers—which baselessly threaten civil and criminal prosecution and demand burdensome production of financial and patient data—some providers are scaling back or halting this care altogether,” the complaint says.
>Sixteen attorneys general from across the country, plus Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, filed a landmark federal lawsuit on August 1. The ensuing legal battle could determine the fate of states’ rights to uphold policies protecting trans-affirming health care.
>“Since taking office on January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump and his administration have relentlessly, cruelly, and unlawfully targeted transgender individuals,” the complaint reads. “The result is an atmosphere of fear and intimidation experienced by transgender individuals, their families and caregivers, and the medical professionals who seek only to provide necessary, lawful care to their patients.”
>The suit was brought by the attorneys general of fifteen states plus Washington DC. Shapiro signed on in lieu of Pennsylvania’s own AG, David Sunday, a Republican.
>This comes after the last eight months have been flooded with anti-trans animus in policy and law—Trump’s executive orders, as well as the directives and memos from his lackeys across federal agencies, have attacked everything from trans-affirming health care to trans girls in sports.
>However, nobody has been successfully prosecuted for the supposed “crime” of providing trans people with evidence-based and life-saving care, and for good reason: There is no federal law prohibiting it. Instead, the legal system has become a political machine used to terrorize Americans. Trump has scared health care systems into compliance using a blunt object: fear.
>“Under the cumulative weight of these targeted actions against medical care providers—which baselessly threaten civil and criminal prosecution and demand burdensome production of financial and patient data—some providers are scaling back or halting this care altogether,” the complaint says.