A Judge Quashed it. [for now]
By Josh Gerstein
Seattle-based U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead says DOJ’s demand serves an “improper purpose” of executing Trump’s orders targeting gender-affirming care.
My note: Read the last paragraph to get the bone chilling desire of the DOJ... The Government is shutdown, needy children going without food assistance, the air-traffic control system near collapse, etc. - yet, the transgender diversion is still on full parade.
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U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead ruled that a wide-ranging subpoena the Justice Department served in June on QueerDoc, a medical practice offering gender-affirming care online, cannot be enforced because the demand was not part of a legitimate law enforcement investigation.
Whitehead, a Biden appointee, said it was apparent that the subpoena is intended to advance President Donald Trump’s goal of wiping out such care for people with gender dysphoria.
“This is not speculation about hidden motives — it is the Administration’s explicit agenda,” Whitehead said in his ruling dated Monday and made public on Tuesday. “The Government seeks the ‘intended effect’ of its Executive Orders and these subpoenas to ‘downsize or eliminate’ all gender-affirming care. No clearer evidence of improper purpose could exist than the Government’s own repeated declarations that it seeks to end the very practice it claims to be merely investigating.”
Attorneys for QueerDoc did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Justice Department announced publicly in July that it issued a flurry of more than 20 subpoenas to “doctors and clinics involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.”
“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
Asked about the judge’s ruling, a Justice Department official echoed Bondi’s earlier comment.
“As Attorney General Bondi has made clear, this Department of Justice will use every legal and law enforcement tool available to protect innocent children from being mutilated under the guise of ‘care,’” the DOJ statement said.
Major U.S. medical associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, support gender-affirming care for adolescents. But medical experts say gender-affirming care for children rarely includes surgery.
QueerDoc provides referrals and information about surgery, but doesn’t offer any in-person care.
While the DOJ statement announcing the subpoenas indicated a focus on “transgender medical procedures on children,” the document demand issued to QueerDoc is much broader. Among other things, it seeks the identities of all patients prescribed “puberty blockers or hormone therapy.”
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