A federal judge in Maryland on March 4 extended a block on an executive order from President Donald Trump that would strip federal funding from organizations performing surgical or chemical procedures for transgender-identifying youth below the age of 19.
U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson had previously issued a temporary block on Trump’s executive order, “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” saying it placed “conditions on federal funding that Congress did not prescribe,” a phrase he repeated in his ruling on Tuesday.
LGBT activist group Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG Inc.), had brought the suit on behalf of seven youths suffering from gender dysphoria, whose treatments were halted as a result of the executive order….