Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and 15 other state AGs have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect gender-affirming health care for youth.

Reports MassLive.com:

Through subpoenas, threats of criminal prosecution and federal investigations, and requests for private patient information, the administration has attempted to dissuade providers from offering gender-affirming care to people younger than 19, Campbell said. That included doctors in states where such care remains legal, such as Massachusetts.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, asked a federal judge to block the government’s coercion of medical providers, as described by the plaintiffs.

“Medically necessary health care for transgender youth saves lives, and those health care decisions should be made by patients, families, and their providers — not by politicians,” Campbell said in a statement. …

The lawsuit was filed jointly with the attorneys general of New York, California, Illinois and Connecticut, with support from the attorneys general of Delaware, Hawai’i, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, as well as the governor of Pennsylvania.

Read the complete MassLive.com story here.

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