AG Ellison, AG Rayfield, and AG Brown filed a federal lawsuit to halt an executive order President Donald Trump issued that would end federal funding to medical institutions providing gender-affirming care. President Trump’s illegal executive order also directs unconstitutional criminal enforcement against medical professionals and patients involved in such care. Additionally, the executive order directs the Department of Justice to investigate and act against states like Minnesota that have passed legislation to prohibit the enforcement of another state’s law requiring a child to be removed from their parent for accessing medically necessary physical or mental health care that affirms the child’s identity. The lawsuit seeks to block federal agencies from acting on this order.

“Our children deserve so much better than to be targeted, intimidated, and denied medically necessary healthcare by the President of the United States and his billionaire cronies. Gender-affirming care is evidence based, provided by licensed and trained medical professionals, and provided with the consent of a young person’s parents or legal guardians. President Trump’s executive order is not only illegal, it’s mean-spirited and deeply hurtful, so I’m filing a lawsuit to end it. I will not stand by and let Donald Trump weaponize the federal government against young people just trying to be themselves and against doctors providing the best care they can to their patients.”- AG Ellison