On July 9, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission held a workshop titled The Dangers of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors. One of our firm’s founding partners, Josh Payne, sat on a panel and spoke about the harms of gender medicine to people like the detransitioners and other individuals we represent. Two of our clients spoke on a panel of detransitioners and parents affected by “gender-affirming care” where they told their stories. 

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced his intention to take action to protect children and their parents from deceptive claims about gender-transition procedures. Ferguson stated that Americans have a right to be informed about the risks involved and the FTC would do everything in its power to achieve that end. “It is about caring for the most vulnerable among us and protecting them from manipulation, deception, and abuse,” Ferguson said.

The Department of Justice also participated in the workshop, with its Chief of Staff, Chad Mizelle, announcing that the Department has launched civil and criminal fraud investigations into clinics, hospitals, medical associations, and drug companies involved in gender-related medical interventions. 

Chairman Ferguson said the FTC will issue a public request for information on the topics discussed at the workshop. If you would like to report deceptive practices regarding “gender-affirming care,” you can report the fraud here or submit a public comment here. 

Campbell Miller Payne is pleased to announce that one of our founding partners, Jordan Campbell, has accepted a position with the Department of Justice. Jordan is now serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and will help lead the Department’s work in protecting vulnerable Americans from harmful gender ideology.

Josh Payne said, “While Jordan’s departure is a loss for our firm, we fully support the Trump administration’s efforts to expand protections from dangerous and risky procedures to those who are most vulnerable. We wish Jordan all the best in this important role.” Campbell Miller Payne continues to serve as the leading nationwide law firm dedicated to helping detransitioners and families harmed by gender-transition procedures pursue justice.

In a landmark ruling on April 15, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Idaho to enforce its Vulnerable Child Protection Act, which protects children from dangerous and irreversible drugs and procedures that block natural development and remove healthy body parts. The Supreme Court granted Idaho’s request to stay an injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho which had blocked Idaho’s law from taking effect.

Idaho argued that the lower court’s order was overbroad because it granted relief beyond the two named plaintiffs challenging the law and the drugs they were seeking. The order prevented Idaho from protecting all children in the state from all forms of medical intervention. The Supreme Court agreed with Idaho’s argument, and temporarily stayed the lower court’s order, except as to the named plaintiffs. The Supreme Court’s stay will remain in place while Idaho pursues an appeal in the Ninth Circuit, which seeks a complete reversal of the order and dismissal of the plaintiffs’ case.

On behalf of its detransitioner clients, Campbell Miller Payne filed an amicus brief in February in support of Idaho’s request for a stay. An amicus brief is filed by a non-party who has information to assist the court in reaching its decision. Campbell Miller Payne’s brief argued that laws like Idaho’s are supported by scientific evidence showing that gender dysphoric children naturally become comfortable with their sex, and by the experiences of detransitioners who realize that medical intervention did not cure their mental health problems.

Judge Robert C. Ervin of the North Carolina Superior Court signed an Order on May 7 allowing Prisha Mosley’s claims for fraud, facilitating fraud, and civil conspiracy to proceed. Judge Ervin ruled that “the Court has determined as a matter of law that the allegations of Plaintiff’s Complaint, treated as true, are sufficient to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.”

The defendants in Prisha Mosley’s case—a pediatrician, plastic surgeon, two counselors, and the corporate entities with which they are associated—asked the Court to dismiss all of Prisha’s claims. Judge Ervin denied the defendants’ motion in part, holding that the claims for fraud, facilitating fraud, and civil conspiracy could proceed. Other claims, including for medical malpractice and negligence, were dismissed. While the Court did not provide extensive reasoning in its Order, the defendants argued that Prisha’s medical malpractice and negligence claims were filed too late.

Judge Ervin’s May 7 Order represents the first substantive ruling we are aware of in which a Court has held that a detransitioner’s case against her healthcare professionals is legally viable. Prisha alleges her healthcare providers misled her into taking testosterone and having her healthy breasts removed when she was a teenager. The team at Campbell Miller Payne is honored to represent Prisha as she pursues justice and tries to prevent what happened to her from happening to others.