Participants march down Fifth Avenue at the 2025 New York City Gay Pride Parade. Wednesday, a judge in New York blocked a Department of Justice subpoena for medical records of transgender children. File Photo by Peter Foley/UPI | License Photo
June 24 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New York on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's efforts to subpoena medical records of minors who sought gender-affirming care in local hospitals in recent years.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla provisionally certified a class of people who received care from a New York City provider over the past six years. She also issued a temporary restraining order that bars investigators from the records, including through a grand jury subpoena that had been issued to NYU Langone Hospitals.
Ruling from the bench on Wednesday, Failla said, "The scope of information sought by the government here, which includes medical assessments, diagnoses, informed consent records, and revelation of plaintiffs' transgender status, is significant," she said, adding that the health data falls "squarely within the class of intimate materials warranting the strongest constitutional protection."
She also noted that the crime isn't clear.
