Unearthed docs undercut Dem warnings of harm from Trump executive order blocking trans surgery for minors

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FIRST ON FOX: Conservative lawfare group America First Legal (AFL) has been filing records requests after 15 Democrat-led states and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, D, sued to block President Trump's executive order banning sex changes for minors, in an attempt to find out whether the harm being alleged in their lawsuit is actually happening. Fox News Digital reported last month on how AFL's more than a dozen records requests to state departments of health were either ignored, or did not include any responsive records documenting the harms the Democratic states' lawsuit warns stem from the president's executive order. One of the states that AFL said ignored its records requests, Connecticut, did subsequently return to them with responsive records. However, according to AFL, the documents provided by Connecticut's health department continue to lend evidence that the harm being cited in Democrats' multi-state lawsuit is nonexistent. "I don't see any impact to HSS funding or federal grants related to this executive order," said an email that was among what appeared to be three records that the Connecticut Department of Public Health provided to AFL, plus an additional final page that was entirely redacted. CALIFORNIA AG SUES HOSPITAL THAT ENDED GENDER TRANSITION TREATMENT FOR MINORS TO COMPLY WITH TRUMP POLICIES The email came from Elizabeth Frugale, a Section Chief for Health Statistics and Surveillance at the Connecticut public health department, in response to a question from a grants management and budget supervisor, Aaron Knight, inquiring whether President Trump's executive order on transgender surgeries "adversely impacts any of your Federal grants." Frugale's response stands in contrast to claims in the lawsuit against the president's executive order on sex changes, which argued the directive had "immediately" jeopardized federal funding and disrupted public health systems. "If Connecticut was not financially impacted by the Executive Order, it should have dec…