President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge

The Trump administration is being sued over its controversial move to withhold federal funding to medical institutions that provide gender-affirming medical care to those under the age of 19.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to ban federal funding and assistance for gender-affirming care for people under the age of 19. The order refers to the use of puberty blockers,

Last week, Trump issued another executive order barring federal funding for transgender health services for minors, including hormone therapy and surgical procedures. The order specifically called out federal research grants given to hospitals and medical schools as well as Medicare and Medicaid funding.

Seven young transgender patients, providers of LGBTQ healthcare, and the advocacy organization PFLAG sued President Donald Trump and his administration on Tuesday over a pair of anti-trans executive orders that attempted to end gender-affirming medications and surgery for transgender people under age 19.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is telling hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments.

A group of LGBTQ+ advocates and families are suing the Trump administration over an executive order banning federal funding for transgender healthcare for those under 19.

Two transgender young adults and five families of trans minors filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging two executive orders President Donald Trump issued over the last two weeks that aim to prohibit federal funding of transition-related health care for anyone under 19 and define sex as biological,