The notion that a person who identifies as transgender or a woman who has sought to terminate a pregnancy could be denied as miniscule a request for medical care as asking for a Band-Aid rankles Joshua Block.

But Block, a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT and HIV Projects, concludes that those possible scenarios qualify as one of the most unfortunate consequences of an injunction issued on the last day of 2016 by a Texas federal judge.