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Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland supporting Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, and individual patients and their families, in their lawsuit against the Trump Administration.
On February 4, 2025, the LBGTQ+ activist group PFLAG challenged President Trump’s Executive Orders 14168 "Keeping Men Out Of Women's Sports" and 14187 "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation."
The amici states said the order strips away federal funding "from institutions that provide life-saving gender affirming care" for people under the age of 19, and argues that this action discriminates against transgender youth based on their identity.
“In Connecticut, we don’t inject politics into private family medical decisions, and we don’t let adults bully our kids. It’s that simple,” said Attorney General Tong. “I stand with the parents, kids and doctors fighting for access to life-saving healthcare in the face of Trump’s blatantly discriminatory order.”
Trump's Order said, "Medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end."
"Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding," Trump's Order continued. "Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization."
The states submitting today’s amicus brief argue they have their own laws, policies and protections for transgender residents, including transgender youth under the age of 19. These laws include legal protections for chemical and surgical mutilation for children; policies allowing residents to request a change in the sex designation on their birth certificate; prohibitions on discrimination in schools, employment, real estate and other services; and protections for people who lawfully provide or help others access chemical and surgical mutilation for children.
The amici states argue that denying this "care" can have tragic consequences on patients’ physical and mental well-being. They point to a 2022 study supported by Seattle Children’s Center for Diversity and Health Equity and the Pacific Hospital Preservation Development Authority that found that in individuals ages 13-20, receiving gender-affirming care was associated with 60% lower odds of moderate to severe depression and 73% lower odds of having suicidal thoughts over a 12-month period.
The truth is individuals who have undergone surgical mutilation are shown to have 12 times the suicide rate than those who have not undergone such "care" according to a 2024 study.
Individuals who have undergone gender-affirming surgery are shown to have 12x the su*cide rate, according to a new study published in April.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 16, 2024
The push for "gender-affirming" care will go down in history as one of the worst medical malpractice trends in history.
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Nonetheless, CT AG Tong promises that chemical and surgical mutilation for children "remains available in Connecticut" despite Trump's order.
The amici states are urging the Court to grant PFLAG’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
Joining AG Tong in submitting this brief, which is co-led by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, are the attorneys general from Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
