{"id":143249,"date":"2026-02-23T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143249\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:54:09","slug":"queens-pols-join-open-letter-calling-on-nyu-langone-to-reverse-decision-halting-gender-affirming-care-for-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143249\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens pols join open letter calling on NYU Langone to reverse decision halting gender-affirming care for youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Numerous elected officials in Queens have signed a letter calling on <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2025\/02\/queens-officials-condemn-nyu-langone-mount-sinai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NYU Langone<\/a> to reverse a decision to halt its Transgender Youth Health Program after the Trump Administration threatened to withhold federal funding for any hospital that offered gender-affirming care to youths.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, addressed to <a href=\"https:\/\/nyulangone.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NYU Langone<\/a> CEO Robert Grossman, has been signed by 73 elected officials across New York State, including State Senators Kristen Gonzalez, Mike Gianaris, Leroy Comrie, John Liu and Jessica Ramos.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/02\/nyu-langone-gender-affirming-care\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tQueens pols join open letter calling on NYU Langone to reverse decision halting gender-affirming care for youths &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Numerous elected officials in Queens have signed a letter calling on NYU Langone to reverse a decision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[40981,310,153,60111,22957,24426,3946,40774,9,24,12,63,37943,122,124,123,33850,60112],"class_list":["post-143249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-assembly-member-jessica-gonzalez-rojas","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-donald-trump","tag-gender-affirming-care","tag-health-news","tag-kids-education","tag-kristen-gonzalez","tag-michael-gianaris","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyu-langone","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-tiffany-caban","tag-transgender-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143249","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=143249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}