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Judge McElroy Blocks DOJ Subpoena on Trans Youth Records

5/14/2026

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Mary McElroy rebuked the Justice Department for targeting transgender youth and seeking records.
She dismissed a subpoena for minors’ gender-affirming records at Rhode Island Hospital and barred the department.
McElroy found the department concealed a Texas enforcement action and misled the hospital.
She ruled the subpoena lacked congressional purpose because prescribing is legal under Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and warned it would violate the minors’ Fourteenth Amendment privacy right.

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Mary McElroy rebuked the Justice Department for targeting transgender youth and seeking records.
She dismissed a subpoena for minors’ gender-affirming records at Rhode Island Hospital and barred the department.
McElroy found the department concealed a Texas enforcement action and misled the hospital.
She ruled the subpoena lacked congressional purpose because prescribing is legal under Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and warned it would violate the minors’ Fourteenth Amendment privacy right.