DOJ Tried To Get Names And Social Security Numbers Of Trans Kids [View all]

Source: Huff Post

Aug 20, 2025, 06:40 PM EDT


The Justice Department has demanded that a Philadelphia hospital hand over a broad swath of information related to gender-affirming care for minors, including individual patient names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, according to a copy of a subpoena that became public in a court filing Monday.

The DOJ issued a subpoena to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in June. It requested doctors’ emails, texts, social media and Zoom recordings dating to January 2020, long before any state legislature in the United States had passed a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, The Washington Post first reported. The subpoena was made public this week in a court filing by the Washington state attorney general’s office.

Washington State Attorney General Nicholas W. Brown sued the Trump administration in January to block two executive orders that tried to withhold federal funding from institutions that offered gender-affirming care. Brown wrote in court documents that he included the subpoena to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia because President Donald Trump has “only escalated” his attacks since a federal judge initially blocked Trump’s efforts to curb youth gender care in March.

Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Justice Department had issued more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics that it said “mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology.” It was not clear at the time what information the government was seeking from these health care providers. DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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