Multiple families sued the Trump administration on Feb. 4 over an executive order barring federal support for transgender surgeries for children and teenagers under the age of 19 nationwide.
The lawsuit was filed in the federal District Court of the District of Maryland by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and lawyers working on behalf of two transgender young adults and five transgender adolescents and their families.
PFLAG National, an LGBT advocacy organization, and GLMA, an association of LGBT and allied health professionals in the United States, also joined the lawsuit.
Plaintiffs in the suit argue that President Donald Trump’s order is “unlawful and unconstitutional” and discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status….