( May 19, 2026, 1:06 PM EDT) -- DENVER — A Colorado trial court erred in its application of the preliminary injunction test in Rathke v. MacFarlane, a divided Colorado Supreme Court ruled May 18, directing the trial court to issue a preliminary injunction in the class case ordering Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC) “to restore its offering of medically necessary gender-affirming care, pending a decision on the merits” of the case brought by minor patients after CHC suspended such care due to a risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding....