The Wall Street Journal published a profile on 27 September 2026 of Jordan Campbell, the lawyer now leading the Justice Department’s effort against pediatric sex-rejecting procedures: How a Business Litigator Became DOJ’s Point Man Against Transgender Care.
Campbell spent a decade as a Texas business litigator, on contract and antitrust disputes. In 2023 he left the boutique firm Brown Fox and co-founded Campbell Miller Payne, which the Journal describes as the first U.S. firm for people who say they were harmed by gender-transition treatments. After President Trump’s 2024 re-election, Chad Mizelle — incoming chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi — recruited him to take that work on for the United States. Campbell moved from Texas to Washington in the summer of 2025 with his family of seven children. He now runs civil and criminal probes of more than 20 medical providers and a number of pharmaceutical companies.
The Journal reports that six large health systems the department targeted have settled and dropped their programs for minors, three of them in recent weeks. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center agreed to pay $950,000. The department’s theory is that doctors may be making false claims about the off-label use of hormones and misclassifying those treatments on bills to government programs and private insurers, and that drug companies may be making false claims about medicines used in the same treatments. The Journal says Campbell’s work has been driven by conversations with detransitioners.
Courts have blocked the government in places. Judges in at least nine cases have stopped all or part of the subpoenas. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Rhode Island referred Campbell and a junior colleague for potential discipline; the Justice Department said those allegations were without merit. The department is appealing losses. Last month a divided Ninth Circuit revived a subpoena to QueerDoc, a telehealth clinic.
The Wall Street Journal — 27 September 2026
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