Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel sent out a press release [1] on Monday celebrating a recent courtroom win for the left’s most protected medical agenda: keeping puberty blockers, hormone treatments and surgeries available for minors under the banner of “essential healthcare.”
Nessel announced that a federal court granted summary judgment for Michigan and a coalition of 21 states plus the District of Columbia, blocking [2] the Trump administration from threatening hospitals and clinics with the loss of Medicare and Medicaid funding over such treatments.
Nessel framed the ruling as a victory against political interference in medicine, saying politicians should not drive medical decision-making and praising the court for stopping the federal government from interfering with doctors who provide trans care to young people.
Critics, of course, see it very differently. To them, this is not some noble stand for healthcare. It is another legal shield for a system that pushes life-altering interventions on troubled kids while adults in power insist the only danger is asking questions.
The coalition backing the case included attorneys general from deep-blue states like California, New York, Illinois, and Washington, along with Pennsylvania’s governor. While Nessel calls mutilating kids compassion, opponents see the ruling as one more victory for an ideology that treats parental concern and medical caution like the real threat.
The judge who ruled in the case – Judge Mustafa Kasubhai – is a Biden appointee who grew up in Los Angeles and whose parents are Indian immigrants.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has not said what its next steps will be in the case.