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A divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled the Trump administration can enforce a subpoena for a telehealth provider's patient records, rejecting a lower court's finding that the investigation was launched in bad faith.
With the Supreme Court mostly siding with the administration, the real action on US transgender rights has moved to the lower courts — injunctions over prison healthcare and a class action over who gets to see trans kids' medical records.
After a federal grand jury subpoena ordered NYU Langone to hand over the names and health records of trans youth, families and civil rights groups went to court — and bought time until June 24.
A D.C. federal court certified a class of roughly 2,000 transgender people in federal prisons and ordered the Bureau of Prisons to keep providing hormone therapy and accommodations while their challenge to a Trump executive order proceeds.
On May 15, plaintiffs in the long-running passport case filed a motion asking the court to halt enforcement of the State Department's policy denying transgender Americans accurate sex markers. A ruling could come within weeks.
The Texas Supreme Court dismissed the temporary injunctions that had blocked the state from investigating families of transgender minors as child abusers. The ruling is procedural — but it leaves the underlying policy intact and the next case wide open.
