The complaint argues that the administration violated state sovereignty by threatening to prosecute providers who treat transgender minors in states where the treatment is still legal.

Seventeen Democratic officials accused President Donald Trump’s administration of unlawfully intimidating health care providers into stopping gender-affirming care for transgender youth in a lawsuit filed Friday.

A coalition of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block policies the U.S. Department of Justice adopted under President Donald Trump to crack down on providers of medical gender-affirming care for transgender youth.