Gender Care Patients Try to Stop DOJ Pediatric Hospital Subpoena

A Justice Department probe into gender-affirming care at one of the nation’s largest pediatric hospitals is facing mounting opposition as current and former patients and parents urge a federal court to quash the Trump administration’s effort.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) patients and parents say the US Department of Justice is violating their privacy rights with a “broad and sweeping” June subpoena demanding medical records from the hospital.

Filed Monday with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the request to quash the DOJ subpoena describes the medical records as “the most intimate kind these young patients ...