A federal judge is blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting children from gender transition procedures. U.S. District Court Judge Brendan Hurson on Thursday placed a nationwide temporary restraining order on Trump’s executive order, allowing gender transition procedures on children to continue unimpeded for the next 14 days, according to the Associated Press. Hurson’s temporary restraining order came in response to a lawsuit filed by several families who claim to have children who identify as transgender or nonbinary.

Shortly after returning to the White House late last month, Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.” The order directs public health agencies to rescind all policies that rely on information from the activist organization World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH); it also instructs the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — the newly-confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — to review all medical guidance related to gender transition procedures for children. The order also tasks the HHS secretary with taking “all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, including regulatory and sub-regulatory actions…”

Notably, the executive order also demands that “institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” and allows the HHS secretary to halt Medicare and Medicaid funding to cover gender transition procedures for minors. According to Hurson’s temporary restraining order, these provisions have caused several medical institutions to completely stop performing gender transition procedures on minors. He ruled that the effects of Trump’s order could cause “irreparable harm” to children who identify as transgender. Hurson claimed that Trump’s executive order “seems to deny that this population even exists, or deserves to exist.”

According to the president’s executive order, however, gender transition procedures already do cause “irreparable harm” to children. “Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,” Trump’s order declares. It continues, “Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.” The president added, “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”

Since his return to office, a number of Trump’s executive orders have been challenged and temporarily halted by various federal judges. Orders removing gender ideology webpages from federal health agency websites, placing U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workers on leave, auditing federal agencies, “buying out” government employees, and removing biological men from women’s prisons have all been halted via temporary restraining orders.

Trump and members of his administration have challenged or appealed many of these temporary restraining orders, both in court and in the public square. In response to one court order, Vice President J.D. Vance said, “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal.” He added, “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”