PRACTITIONER BLOG
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Amid Federal Attacks on Transgender Youth, Families Fight to Preserve Health Care at Rady Children's Hospital
Earlier this year, transgender youth and their families in the San Diego, California area filed a putative class action lawsuit against Rady Children’s Health to prevent the hospital system from unlawfully cutting off medically necessary treatment for transgender adolescents and young adults. Impact Fund, Western Center on Law & Poverty, and the National Center for LGBTQ Rights represent the plaintiffs.
In January 2026, Rady announced it would no longer provide gender-affirming medications and procedures. Rady planned to end these services in less than three weeks but did not provide referrals to the nearly 2,000 patients whose care it was cutting off, leaving them scrambling to find essential medical care overnight.
Families Win Key Protections After DOJ Targets Records of Transgender Patients at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
On January 22, 2026, transgender patients of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and their families achieved an important victory to protect their private medical information from unlawful intrusion by the federal government, defeating an administrative subpoena demanding medical records containing information about the identities and private medical records of transgender youth patients.
A Critical Win for Head Start’s Children and Families
Earlier this month, the Impact Fund and co-counsel including the ACLU won a court order on behalf of Plaintiff Head Start associations and parents’ groups protecting the Head Start program from attacks by the Trump administration. Head Start provides early education, health services, and family support to more than 800,000 children from low-income families, children with disabilities, children learning English, Native American children, and others. The court’s order blocks the Trump administration from cutting Head Start staff and offices, limiting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility activities within the program, and putting the program’s federal funding at risk.