A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from removing medical articles referencing transgender people from the government’s Patient Safety Network (PSNet). The ruling follows a lawsuit by two Harvard Medical School doctors who argued the takedown violated their First Amendment rights.
Judge Leo Sorokin of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction, stating the article removal constituted “viewpoint discrimination.” The content had been deleted under a January executive order signed by Trump, which mandated federal agencies eliminate “messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology.”
Sorokin ruled the doctors were likely to succeed on constitutional grounds, ordering the restoration of their articles and others similarly removed.
This decision is part of a broader series of legal rebukes against Trump’s executive actions in Massachusetts. On the same day, judges blocked Trump’s attempt to bar Harvard University from enrolling international students and ordered the return of a wrongfully deported Guatemalan national.
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