President Donald Trump’s plans to pull federal funding from medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care will remain blocked after a federal judge found, for the second time, that Trump lacked the proper executive authority to make such an order.
King's ruling is the second preliminary injunction that has granted in response to Trump trying to block the support of gender transition. In February, another judge blocked his plan to stop medical treatment related to gender transitions and to house transgender women with male inmates at federal prisons.
Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Colorado — had sued to block President Trump’s plan to withhold federal funds from hospitals that offer transgender treatment to people under 19.