Arizona Clinic Joins in Federal Lawsuit Against Trump

One of Arizona’s largest LGBTQ+ clinics, Prisma Community Care, has joined a lawsuit against three Trump-era executive orders that would strip federal funding from health providers serving LGBTQ+ people.

Prisma, formerly the Southwest Center for HIV and AIDS, is teaming up with eight other clinics from across the country to challenge these policies in California’s Northern District Court. The lawsuit argues that the executive orders strong-arm clinics into recognizing only binary genders assigned at birth and dismantling diversity programs.

Lambda Legal, the group representing the clinics, is calling out the orders as a blatant attempt to penalize organizations for "acknowledging the existence of transgender people, advocating for their rights, and adopting an equitable approach to the provision of their services that recognizes the rich diversity of the United States,” according to the lawsuit.