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particularly about the subpoena to CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which is the oldest of its kind in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world - I remember being in there as a young child, decades before they started all the new lo-rise and towers construction 
). There are building yet another tower for it (they have a HUGE endowment) -
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia New Inpatient Tower. Credit: Ballinger / ZGF / AEI via the Civic Design Review
Government’s demand for trans care info sought addresses, doctors’ notes, texts
by Casey Parks and David Ovalle, Washington Post
Published Aug. 21, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET
The Justice Department is demanding that hospitals turn over a wide range of sensitive information related to medical care for young transgender patients, including billing documents, communication with drug manufacturers and data such as patient dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and addresses, according to a copy of a subpoena made public in a court filing this week.
The June subpoena to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia requests emails, Zoom recordings, “every writing or record of whatever type” doctors have made, voicemails and text messages on encrypted platforms dating to January 2020 — before hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and gender transition surgery had been banned anywhere in the United States. About half of states have since passed laws prohibiting all or most gender treatment of minors. The Supreme Court ruled in June that a Tennessee ban did not violate the Constitution.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said last month that the Justice Department had issued more than 20 subpoenas seeking to hold “medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology” accountable. It is highly unusual for the nation’s chief law enforcement officer to announce such legal activity. Bondi did not identify who received the subpoenas, what information the government sought, or what potential law violations it is investigating.
In legal filings, CHOP has challenged the Trump administration’s right to the information sought in the subpoena, stressing the privacy concerns of a “uniquely vulnerable population.” CHOP said disclosing “exceedingly sensitive” and “intimate, personal details” about the “lives and struggles” of these patients “would be very damaging” to their mental health and “could even result in thoughts of, or completed, suicide.”
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by Casey Parks and David Ovalle, Washington Post
Published Aug. 21, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET
The Justice Department is demanding that hospitals turn over a wide range of sensitive information related to medical care for young transgender patients, including billing documents, communication with drug manufacturers and data such as patient dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and addresses, according to a copy of a subpoena made public in a court filing this week.
The June subpoena to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia requests emails, Zoom recordings, “every writing or record of whatever type” doctors have made, voicemails and text messages on encrypted platforms dating to January 2020 — before hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and gender transition surgery had been banned anywhere in the United States. About half of states have since passed laws prohibiting all or most gender treatment of minors. The Supreme Court ruled in June that a Tennessee ban did not violate the Constitution.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said last month that the Justice Department had issued more than 20 subpoenas seeking to hold “medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology” accountable. It is highly unusual for the nation’s chief law enforcement officer to announce such legal activity. Bondi did not identify who received the subpoenas, what information the government sought, or what potential law violations it is investigating.
In legal filings, CHOP has challenged the Trump administration’s right to the information sought in the subpoena, stressing the privacy concerns of a “uniquely vulnerable population.” CHOP said disclosing “exceedingly sensitive” and “intimate, personal details” about the “lives and struggles” of these patients “would be very damaging” to their mental health and “could even result in thoughts of, or completed, suicide.”
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I know others have lawsuits against this intrusive demand.
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