Plaintiffs Gabe Goe, Bella Boe, Cameron Coe, Robert Roe, and W.G. (the “Minor
Plaintiffs”), Plaintiffs Lawrence Loe and Dylan Doe (the “Adult Plaintiffs”), and certain PFLAG
members are transgender people under the age of nineteen who have been thriving because they
have had access to medically necessary treatment for their gender dysphoria (collectively, the
“Transgender Plaintiffs”). President Donald Trump, through the Denial of Care and Gender
Identity Orders, unilaterally seeks to terminate access to this health care immediately by directing
agencies to withhold funding from entities that “promote gender ideology” or provide medical care
to transgender people under nineteen for the purpose of gender transition.
5. These Executive Orders are unlawful and unconstitutional. Under our Constitution,
it is Congress, not the President, who is vested with the power of the purse. The President does
not have unilateral power to withhold federal funds that have been previously authorized by
Congress and signed into law, and the President does not have the power to impose his own
conditions on the use of funds when Congress has not delegated to him the power to do so.
A coalition led by ACLU and Lambda Legal have filed a lawsuit against Trump's executive order withholding federal funds from any institution that provides gender-affirming care to transgender people age 19 and under, calling the order "unlawful and unconstitutional." assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
