Justice Department drops demand for records naming transgender kids treated at Children’s Hospital L.A.

Los Angeles Times ^ | Jan. 23, 2026 3:24 PM PT | Kevin Rector and Sonja Sharp

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The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop demanding medical records that identify young patients who received gender-affirming care from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, ending a legal standoff with families who sued to block a subpoena that some feared would be used to criminally prosecute the parents of transgender kids.

The agreement, filed in federal court Thursday, allows the hospital to withhold certain records and redact personal information from others who underwent gender-affirming treatments, which Trump administration officials have compared to child mutilation despite support for such care by the nation’s major medical associations.

Several parents of CHLA patients expressed profound relief Friday, while also acknowledging that other threats to their families remain.

Jesse Thorn, the father of two transgender children who had been patients at Children’s Hospital, said hospital officials have ignored his requests for information as to whether they had already shared his kids’ data with the Trump administration, which had been scary. Hearing they had not, and now won’t, provided “two-fold” relief, he said.

“The escalations have been so relentless in the threats to our family, and one of the things that compounded that was the uncertainty about what the federal government knew about our kids’ medical care and what they were going to do about that,” he said.

Less clear is whether the agreement provides any new protections for doctors and other hospital personnel who provided care at the clinic and have also been targeted by the Trump administration.

The agreement follows similar victories for families seeking to block such disclosures by gender-affirming care clinics elsewhere in the country, including a ruling Thursday for the families of transgender kids who received treatment at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: california; childabuse; coverup; hospital; mutilation; trans

[dadfly]

very, very bad move, DOJ.

[one guy in new jersey]

What is the bad move, demanding, or ceasing to demand?

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I smell Todd Blanche.

[dadfly]

huh? did you read it?

uh. exactly how and why does the DOJ come down on the side of protecting parents who pay hospitals and doctors for the genital mutilation of their own children? what is the rational of that, let alone the legality of it? would God reward nations and people who fund, and promote such ‘harm to these little ones?’

[dadfly]

my goodness. how is it that these people aren’t rooted out yet?

from the article:

“According to the new agreement, the Justice Department withdrew its requests for those specific records — which had yet to be produced by the hospital — on Dec. 8, and told Children’s Hospital to redact the personally identifying information of patients in other records it was still demanding.

Thursday’s agreement formalizes that position, and requires the Justice Department to return or destroy any records that provide personally identifying information moving forward.

“The Government will not use this patient identifying information to support any investigation or prosecution,” the agreement states.”

unbelievable.

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Exactly.

[iamgalt]

So we’re just going to let surgically mutilating children go on.

[dadfly]

i guess so, if the DOJ says you can cover up your crimes under color of medical privacy, why wouldn’t you? that’s exactly what Roe did originally: covered up baby murder under the ‘penumbra’ of privacy rights unstated but ‘implied’ in the Constitution according to the leftists.

maybe the GOPe will do something. maybe pass a law against it? i’m not holding my breath. they’re too scared to take the ‘nuclear’ option, i.e., restore the original filibuster—or really the Constitution as originally written for Congress—which of course requires a simple majority for most legislation.