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7/12/2025, 1:25:40 AM
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trumps-doj-subpoenas-trans-care-records
>Hospitals, gender affirming care clinics and health care systems are once again being put to the test on how much they will stand up for the rights and safety of their patients—starting with trans kids.
>This week, Attorney General Pam Bondi filed more than 20 subpoenas against gender-affirming care clinics and health care providers across the country that it says treated transgender youth. It could function as a litmus test for how far health care institutions will go to protect doctors and patients, and not just trans ones.
>“With respect to civil and criminal fraud—although the exact details of the targets of our investigation are not yet public—we have issued nearly 20 subpoenas against clinics who are engaged in transition-related investigations,” the Department of Justice Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle said at a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) event on July 9.
>“The Department’s investigations include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more,” Bondi said in a press release that same day about “clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.”
>The names of the impacted hospitals and further details about the requested information is not yet known, but earlier this month, Fox News reported on rumors of potential FBI probes into Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Colorado.
>Erin in the Morning was able to independently verify at least one hospital was subpoenaed after Bondi’s announcement.
>Hospitals, gender affirming care clinics and health care systems are once again being put to the test on how much they will stand up for the rights and safety of their patients—starting with trans kids.
>This week, Attorney General Pam Bondi filed more than 20 subpoenas against gender-affirming care clinics and health care providers across the country that it says treated transgender youth. It could function as a litmus test for how far health care institutions will go to protect doctors and patients, and not just trans ones.
>“With respect to civil and criminal fraud—although the exact details of the targets of our investigation are not yet public—we have issued nearly 20 subpoenas against clinics who are engaged in transition-related investigations,” the Department of Justice Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle said at a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) event on July 9.
>“The Department’s investigations include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more,” Bondi said in a press release that same day about “clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.”
>The names of the impacted hospitals and further details about the requested information is not yet known, but earlier this month, Fox News reported on rumors of potential FBI probes into Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Colorado.
>Erin in the Morning was able to independently verify at least one hospital was subpoenaed after Bondi’s announcement.
6/30/2025, 9:24:56 PM
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/reported-fbi-probe-targets-trans
>Right-wing media has been teeming with an eye-catching headline. As Fox News put it: “FBI launches probes into 3 children's hospitals for alleged genital mutilation of minors.”
>The news comes from a single anonymous source; the FBI did not confirm or deny the investigation, and at least one of the three hospitals said it had not received any notification of such an investigation. This isn’t wholly abnormal for FBI investigations, one attorney told Erin in the Morning—the FBI often does not disclose the status of ongoing probes lest it poses a risk to the outcome.
>But the weaponization of federal laws against female genital mutilation, also known in human rights spaces as FGM, has been on the horizon since at least the start of the second Trump Administration, when he issued an executive order directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation” and labeled all gender-affirming care “chemical and surgical mutilation.”
>It is not immediately clear why these gender clinics—at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC), and Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)—were targeted, but it is noteworthy that, until its recently-announced closure, the CHLA clinic was among the largest gender-affirming care providers in the country. Meanwhile, BCH hosts the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program ever established in the United States. On rare occasions, trans people under the age of 18 may receive a form of “bottom surgery,” but even before Trump’s renewed regime, many clinics didn’t offer it to that age group.
>Right-wing media has been teeming with an eye-catching headline. As Fox News put it: “FBI launches probes into 3 children's hospitals for alleged genital mutilation of minors.”
>The news comes from a single anonymous source; the FBI did not confirm or deny the investigation, and at least one of the three hospitals said it had not received any notification of such an investigation. This isn’t wholly abnormal for FBI investigations, one attorney told Erin in the Morning—the FBI often does not disclose the status of ongoing probes lest it poses a risk to the outcome.
>But the weaponization of federal laws against female genital mutilation, also known in human rights spaces as FGM, has been on the horizon since at least the start of the second Trump Administration, when he issued an executive order directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation” and labeled all gender-affirming care “chemical and surgical mutilation.”
>It is not immediately clear why these gender clinics—at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC), and Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)—were targeted, but it is noteworthy that, until its recently-announced closure, the CHLA clinic was among the largest gender-affirming care providers in the country. Meanwhile, BCH hosts the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program ever established in the United States. On rare occasions, trans people under the age of 18 may receive a form of “bottom surgery,” but even before Trump’s renewed regime, many clinics didn’t offer it to that age group.
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