Senators Probe Legal Questions on Transgender Healthcare Policy

Discussion at a Senate hearing Wednesday delved into the broader legal disputes surrounding guidance and delivery of transgender healthcare and what the federal government’s role should be.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing sought to examine the effects of gender-affirming care on minors, which has emerged as a key battle in the debate over regulating the health service.

President Donald Trump has focused on “biological sex” as a formative cultural policy issue of his second term, issuing sweeping executive orders that called on the Department of Health and Human Services, Justice Department, Department of Defense, Education Department, ...