California Families Sue To Stop DOJ From Obtaining Medical Records Of Trans Youth [View all]

Source: Yahoo! News/Huff Post

Updated Thu, May 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM EDT


Six California families sued the DOJ on Wednesday evening to try to stop it from using a grand jury subpoena to obtain private medical records of transgender youth.

The suit, filed jointly by the National Center for LGBTQ Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, alleged that the DOJ launched a criminal investigation into Stanford Medicine Children’s Health from a Texas District Court, without notifying patients or providers.

The DOJ has been largely unsuccessful in its attempts to gather medical records from hospitals. At least eight federal district courts have blocked civil subpoenas – and now the DOJ is escalating its efforts by filing secret grand jury subpoenas with the help of conservative North Texas Chief Judge Reed O’Conner.

“When the federal government can reach across the country, into a hospital that has no connection to the court that issued the subpoena, and pull a child’s entire medical file out of the filing cabinet without so much as a phone call to the parents, every family should be concerned,” Shannon Minter, the legal director at NCLR, said in a statement.

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