The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, targets a January executive order that makes it U.S. policy not to “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” gender transition for people under 19.

Sixteen Democratic-run states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its moves against access to transgender procedures and treatment. In a 79-page lawsuit filed in the U.

Seventeen Democratic officials accused President Donald Trump's administration of unlawfully intimidating health care providers into stopping gender-affirming care for transgender youth in a lawsuit filed Friday.