AG Ellison won temporary protections for gender-affirming care in Minnesota as a federal judge granted Minnesota’s request for a temporary restraining order against an executive order that would end federal funding to medical institutions providing gender-affirming care. The order comes in the context of the lawsuit Attorney General Ellison filed on February 7 with the attorneys general of Washington and Oregon challenging the constitutionality of the order, including provisions that directed unconstitutional criminal enforcement against medical professionals and patients involved in such care.

“I will not sit back and allow Donald Trump to harass, target, and scapegoat vulnerable young people just trying to be themselves and live their lives. The temporary restraining order we won today protects evidence-based care for transgender youth, and it protects the medical personnel who provide that care. This is great news and is the beginning of this process, not the end. At the next hearing and beyond, I will continue working to prevent Donald Trump from unilaterally cutting medical funding allocated by Congress just so he can bully our young people.”- AG Ellison