Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and two other state attorneys general sued President Donald Trump in federal court Friday over his recent executive order aiming to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender youth younger than 19.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, along with attorneys general from Washington and Oregon and three unnamed doctors, filed a federal lawsuit Friday calling for a halt on a presidential executive order that would end federal funding to medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care.

The attorneys general of multiple states filed a lawsuit condemning Trump's executive order on gender procedures for children as not only "cruel," but unconstitutional

"I am terrified that blocking gender-affirming care for minors will cause a mental health crisis and an increase in suicides," a medical professional said.

Ellison, alongside two other state attorneys general, is attempting to block a Trump executive order that ends federal funding to medical institutions providing gender-affirming care.

Minnesota along with two other states sued Friday to block an executive order by President Trump that cuts federal funding to organizations providing gender-affirming care to children and teens. State Attorney General Keith Ellison called Trump’s order unconstitutional but also “mean-spirited and deeply hurtful” because it would discourage people younger than 19 from receiving medically-proven