Brian Lair on WNYC, now this kind of shocking new report coming from the Washington Post.

Over the last two months, they say President Trump's Justice Department has issued more than 20 subpoenas

demanding sensitive information from medical providers on transgender patients under 19 years old.

This, of course, comes after the Supreme Court ruled in June to uphold a Tennessee law

banning gender affirming care for adolescents, allowing 23 states with similar

laws on the books to follow suit. But many of these reported investigations are in states where

gender affirming care is or was at the time legal. Joining me now to share her reporting on the

chilling effects these subpoenas are having on medical providers

and their patients and at least potential effects on people's privacy is Casey Parks, Washington Post

reporter, who covers LGBTQ issues for the paper. Casey, thanks for coming on. Welcome to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me. Let me start with a very basic question.

With these subpoenas, what information is the Justice Department requesting from medical providers?

The subpoena itself is very broad. One of the lines in it says every written or record or any kind of recording of any kind.

So that includes even encrypted text messages. Doctors may have sent on WhatsApp or apps like Signal. But the far-reaching

thing, one of the scariest things for patients is it requests all information about patients. So that could be social

security numbers, their addresses, any information about their parents. It includes entire personnel

files for doctors. At one point it says any diaries doctors have kept. So it basically is requesting anything possible it could get

related to gender transition care. And what's the justification, the stated justification,

at least for the subpoenas? Is there a particular law or are there particular laws that the

DOJ believes medical providers have violated or may have?

Well, the care itself is not federally illegal.

President Trump did sign a couple of executive orders as soon as he got into office

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