Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) on Tuesday denounced a recent decision by the University of Michigan’s hospital system to suspend gender-affirming care for transgender youth, calling the move “cowardly” and possibly "illegal."

Michigan Medicine said Monday it would no longer offer gender-affirming care to patients younger than 19, in line with a January executive order from President Trump. The health care provider said it would continue serving transgender youth through “all appropriate care other than puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones.”

A statement from the university’s public affairs department said Michigan Medicine was one of several institutions to have received a subpoena from the Justice Department as part of the federal government’s investigation into gend

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