Court Allows Trump Administration To Access Trans Patients Records

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just handed the Trump administration a win, upholding a Department of Justice (DOJ) administrative subpoena seeking the personal and confidential health records of trans youth. The ruling cedes authority to the executive branch while making partisan points, and the dissenting judge pulled no punches.

“This case began with an attempt to use federal investigative powers to intimidate healthcare professionals and patients in an effort to undermine access to gender-affirming medical care,” said Crystal Beal, the CEO and founder of QueerDoc, a Washington-based telehealth clinic that provides gender-affirming care to trans people, in a statement. The subpoena being contested demanded QueerDoc turn over patient records. “Although it arose from care provided to transgender patients, the principles at stake reach far beyond transgender healthcare. Every patient deserves to know they can seek medical care without fear that their most personal health information will become a tool of political investigation.”

Last June, the DOJ issued over 20 administrative subpoenas to hospitals across the United States demanding extensive medical records for trans minors who received gender-affirming care. It claimed that it could request these records because HIPAA, a medical privacy law, allows the release of records for an investigation into a federal crime. However, the DOJ said it needs these records for an investigation into off-label prescriptions, which isn’t a crime.

Consequently, until now, every court in which the subpoenas have been challenged has quashed them in whole or in part. Judges doing so have called the DOJ’s campaign a “fishing expedition” intended to “harass” and “intimidate,” and to end gender-affirming care through “fear.”

The subpoena against QueerDoc was one of those quashed when it was brought before US District Judge Jamal Whitehead back in October 2025. In that ruling, the judge responded to QueerDoc’s assertion that the “DOJ has weaponized its investigative authority to advance the Administration’s stated policy goal of eliminating gender-affirming care.”

 

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/court-allows-administration-to-access-trans-patients-records/

[onTheBrink 1,449]

Why is he still alive? 

[lance13 1,236]

So that's ok, but those Epstein Files are completely off limits. Hmmmmm.

[Lord Mayhem 3,461]

HIPAA who? 

[Awakened M 3,245]

WTF? 

[Purrrrrr 18,184]

pleaaase can we have a black &white  LGBTQ tag  news like this doesn't need a rainbow

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[EART HL I NG 1,416]

Absolutely despicable 

 

And MAGAts will cheer this from the rooftops until it's precedent gets used on them and they get absolutely f*cked for their medical issues if the government decides they aren't worth keeping alive.

 

I despise this administration 

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[Quentin 6,852]

28 minutes ago, Lord Mayhem said:

HIPAA who? 

Broke my HIPAA

[gumzy3000 7,925]

These people are so obsessed with such a tiny portion of the population. 

[Kayioshka 3,413]

1 minute ago, gumzy3000 said:

These people are so obsessed with such a tiny portion of the population. 

That’s the art of amplification. Trump is good for nothing except that. 

But while Republicans voters keep sucking their same stupid script, Trump keep touching more of their daughters and sons...