Supreme Court hears major transgender rights case
In the first major transgender rights case to hit the Supreme Court, the justices are considering whether states can ban healthcare for trans minors. LiveNOW’s Andrew Craft Sarah Parshall Perry, Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
The Brief
Trump’s executive order bans federal programs like Medicaid and TRICARE from covering gender-affirming care for minors and urges legal action to oppose the practice.
The order may lead to funding cuts for hospitals and universities providing such care and challenges state Medicaid programs covering it.
Critics expect court challenges as this aligns with Trump’s broader rollback of transgender protections, including bans on military service and recognition of nonbinary identities.
WASHINGTON – Signing a new executive order, President Donald Trump on Tuesday aims to curtail gender transitions for people under age 19.
What is in the executive order:
The order directs that federally-run insurance programs, including TRICARE for military families and Medicaid, exclude coverage for such care, and calls on the Department of Justice to vigorously pursue litigation and legislation to oppose the practice.
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” the order read. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
Trump orders all federal DEI employees put on leave
The White House’s Office of Personnel Management notified heads of agencies and departments that they must begin taking steps to close all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion offices by the end of the day Wednesday and place government workers in those offices on paid leave, Fox News Digital has learned.
