Trans youth and their parents fight back against efforts to get their detailed medical records | CNN Politics

The Trump administration’s demands for sensitive medical records of transgender minors are facing fresh scrutiny in court as it ramps up its efforts by using a grand jury in Texas to force providers of gender-affirming care to comply. The initial use of so-called administrative subpoenas to get the information was shut down in case after case over the last year by jurists appointed by presidents from both parties who said the administration is conducting a baseless fishing expedition into gender-affirming care. In an apparent bid to overcome those roadblocks, prosecutors in Texas, where a sprawling criminal investigation into gender-affirming treatments has sprung up in recent months, are now seeking some of the records through grand jury subpoenas. In doing so, they’re using a tool that’s historically difficult to challenge to get hold of information that observers say is not necessary for the kind of probe being carried out – alarming advocates and minors who receive the treatments, which is not illegal on the federal level but has been heavily restricted in a slew of GOP-led states. The only federal judge in Fort Worth, where the probe is being carried out, is Reed O’C