A federal judge has temporarily blocked the executive order of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, which prohibits medical surgeries and interventions for transgender people under 19.
The measure occurs after a group of seven families with children who identify as a transgender filed a lawsuit challenging the executive order earlier this month.
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Judge Brendan Hurson of the United States District Court for the Maryland district granted the plaintiffs a temporary restriction order on Thursday, after a hearing of the case in a federal court in Baltimore.
According to the Washington Post, Hurson would have described the young people who identify as transgender as “a population with an extremely high rate of suicide, poverty, unemployment (y) drug addiction” during the audience, and described the imperative of the order of the order Executive to end immediately with medical interventions for transgender people as “terribly dangerous.”
The temporal block will remain in force for two weeks, although according to a report of NBC News, the lawyers of the plaintiffs plan to request a preliminary court order before the period of the restriction order is fulfilled.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Low Elhabbal
Madalaine Elhabbal is a CNA journalist based in the Washington DC office in EWTN. He has published articles in Catholicvote and has also worked as a foreign language assistant in France. She is a graduate of Benedictine College.