A judge on Friday ordered a pause on President Donald Trump’s effort to block federal funding for hospitals that offer gender-transition treatments for people under 19.

The temporary restraining order, issued by Judge Lauren J. King of U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, came a day after a federal judge in Baltimore put Trump’s plan on hold in a separate lawsuit. Neither order is a final decision, but together they signal a setback for the Trump administration’s attempts to prohibit the recognition of transgender identities.

King was appointed by President Joe Biden.

The lawsuit heard in Seattle on Friday was filed by the attorneys general of Washington, Oregon and Minnesota, along with three doctors who provide youth gender medicine.

They argued that Trump’s executive order, which ends funding to hospitals that provide gender-transition treatments for young people, violates the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantees to transgender patients.

— The New York Times