As of last week, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has begun issuing criminal subpoenas seeking information on gender-affirming care administered to minors. This escalation, critics argue, is the latest step in a larger effort to push transgender Americans further out of public life.
“They are asking for identifiable patient records, which should scare every American, whether they’re trans or not,” Tyler Hack, the founder and executive director of Christopher Street Project, a PAC boosting candidates committed to protecting trans rights, told Salon. “Everyone relies on patient privacy in the relationship between them and their provider, and that’s something the Trump administration wants to throw out the window because they want to look through our medical records and decide what they like and don’t like.”
