{"id":4940,"date":"2026-01-01T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:41:20","slug":"more-than-a-third-of-states-sue-hhs-over-a-move-that-could-curtail-youth-gender-affirming-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/01\/more-than-a-third-of-states-sue-hhs-over-a-move-that-could-curtail-youth-gender-affirming-care\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a third of states sue HHS over a move that could curtail youth gender-affirming care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A coalition of over a dozen U.S. states has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), challenging federal moves that could restrict access to gender-affirming healthcare for minors. The states argue that the federal government is overstepping its authority and endangering the well-being of transgender youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 23, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lawsuit-hhs-transgender-health-care-children-015b2e5df026c9d69da7eadbdf6647ae\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of over a dozen U.S. states has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), challenging federal moves that could restrict access to gender-affirming healthcare for minors. The states argue that the federal government is overstepping its authority and endangering the well-being of transgender youth. Date: December 23, 2025. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}