Two advocacy groups have asked a federal court to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order ensuring that federal grantees don’t offer transgender procedures to children and teenagers under the age of 19.
A Feb. 5 filing argues for a temporary restraining order and accuses Trump of overstepping his authority by threatening to withdraw federal funding from institutions that perform these procedures.
“President Trump does not have unilateral power to withhold federal funds that Congress has authorized and signed into law, and he does not have the power to impose conditions on the use of funds when Congress has not delegated to him the power to do so,” the filing reads….