DOJ tried to subpoena an online trans health care provider. A judge quashed it.

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Source: Politico

DOJ tried to subpoena an online trans health care provider. A judge quashed it.

Seattle-based U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead says DOJ’s demand serves an “improper purpose” of executing Trump’s orders targeting gender-affirming care.


Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a roundtable about antifa in the State Dining Room at the White House Oct. 8, 2025. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

A judge has delivered a setback to an investigation Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in July, targeting providers of gender-affirming care. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

By JOSH GERSTEIN
10/29/2025 03:11 PM EDT

A federal judge has dealt a fresh blow to the Trump administration’s attempt to crack down on doctors who provide gender-affirming care to transgender people.

U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead ruled that a wide-ranging subpoena the Justice Department served in June on QueerDoc, a medical practice offering gender-affirming care online, cannot be enforced because the demand was not part of a legitimate law enforcement investigation.

Whitehead, a Biden appointee, said it was apparent that the subpoena is intended to advance President Donald Trump’s goal of wiping out such care for people with gender dysphoria.

“This is not speculation about hidden motives — it is the Administration’s explicit agenda,” Whitehead said in his ruling dated Monday and made public on Tuesday. “The Government seeks the ‘intended effect’ of its Executive Orders and these subpoenas to ‘downsize or eliminate’ all gender-affirming care. No clearer evidence of improper purpose could exist than the Government’s own repeated declarations that it seeks to end the very practice it claims to be merely investigating.” … Attorneys for QueerDoc did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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