A federal judge blocks the Trump administration’s Department of Justice from obtaining confidential records from Rhode Island Hospital, which provides gender-affirming care to minors. In a ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy limits or halts the government’s sweeping civil subpoenas that sought identifying information for transgender patients treated over the past five years. According to reporting across multiple outlets, the subpoenas demanded sensitive data including patients’ birth dates, Social Security numbers, and residential addresses. The judge’s decision is described as a setback for the DOJ’s broader subpoena campaign aimed at providers of transgender healthcare. Several outlets also frame the ruling as part of an ongoing sequence of defeats for the government in similar cases, noting that other federal courts have previously quashed or narrowed expansive civil subpoenas sent last summer to doctors and hospitals. The outlets agree that the blocked request targets records related to gender-affirming care for minors and involves the transfer of confidential patient information. The reporting does not indicate that the DOJ is pursuing the same information through other channels in this coverage.