HHS Illegally Scrubbed ‘LGBTQ’ From Studies, Judge Suggests

May 21, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

The Trump administration violated two Harvard Medical School Professors’ First Amendment rights by censoring their papers because they contained words related to gender ideology, a federal judge said Wednesday.

“I would be hard pressed to find how on the record as it stands now the plaintiffs’ individual First Amendment rights weren’t violated,” said Leo Sorokin, a judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts during a hearing on the professors’ request that he temporarily block the government from restricting their speech.

Doctors Gordon Schiff and Celeste Royce sued the Trump administration after the US ...

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