Judge in Seattle temporarily blocks Trump’s gender-affirming care executive order

Trump’s executive order would financially target hospitals and universities that provide the medical treatment and receive federal funding.

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle ruled Friday to place an emergency block on Trump’s executive order on gender-affirming care amid a Washington state lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. 

Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown filed the lawsuit last week.

A week after his inauguration, Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting federal support for gender-affirming medical treatments for people under 19. This includes puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery.

The order would financially target hospitals and universities that provide the care and

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