The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it has issued more than 20 subpoenas to clinics and doctors involved in transgender medical procedures on children.
The DOJ did not disclose the names of those who are receiving the subpoenas or what kind of information it is asking for, but said they are part of investigations into “health care fraud, false statements, and more.”
“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement.
The announcement follows Bondi’s April 22 memo instructing federal prosecutors to investigate and prosecute individuals and entities that profit from providing “gender-affirming care”—procedures she described as surgically and chemically maiming and sterilizing one’s body—to young patients who often regret it later in life....
