{"id":100631,"date":"2026-01-14T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:24:18","slug":"new-york-and-11-states-sue-trump-administration-for-threatening-to-withhold-funding-over-trans-inclusive-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100631\/","title":{"rendered":"New York and 11 states sue Trump administration for threatening to withhold funding over trans-inclusive policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump visits a Ford production center in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S., January 13, 2026. <\/p>\n

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New York and 11 other states are suing the Department of Health and Human Services over the Trump administration\u2019s demands that states comply with anti-trans executive orders or face the loss of federal funding.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges that the Department of Health and Human Services is unlawfully requiring states to comply with Executive Order 14168<\/a>, officially titled \u201cDefending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,\u201d as a condition of federal funding. The executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on the day of his inauguration on Jan. 20 of last year, effectively erases the federal government\u2019s recognition of transgender individuals.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island and also included Oregon, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"U.S.U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interviewed after announcing new nutrition guidelines, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 7, 2026.REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government is trying to force states to choose between their values and the vital funding their residents depend on,\u201d New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a written statement. \u201cThis policy threatens health care for families, life-saving research, and education programs that help young people thrive in favor of denying the dignity and existence of transgender people. New York will not abandon our values, our laws, and above all, our residents. My office is suing to block this cruel and unjust directive.\u201d<\/p>\n

In announcing the lawsuit, James said the Trump administration\u2019s policy would force states to discriminate against individuals in violation of state-based anti-discrimination law. If the policy stands, states could face significant financial setbacks, including in New York, where more than $80 billion in grant funding \u2014 including for health services, research, HIV prevention and treatment, substance use, and mental health programs \u2014 is threatened by the administration\u2019s policy, according to James\u2019 office.<\/p>\n

The states also charged that the Department of Health and Human Services is requiring states to certify compliance with the Trump administration\u2019s interpretation of Title IX, which, under the current president, excludes trans individuals. The policy, according to the states, threatens not only new funding, but existing funding.<\/p>\n

The states are asking that the court block the policy and declare it unlawful.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed less than three weeks after New York and 18 states sued the Trump administration for similar reasons<\/a> after the White House announced proposed rules last month stipulating that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would require hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs to ban gender-affirming care for individuals under the age of 18 and bar federal Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump visits a Ford production center in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S., January 13, 2026. REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-100631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}