{"id":149653,"date":"2026-03-02T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149653\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:47:09","slug":"dozens-rally-for-gender-affirming-care-outside-nyu-langone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149653\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens rally for gender-affirming care outside NYU Langone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 80 protesters rallied outside NYU Langone Health\u2019s Kips Bay location on Sunday to denounce the medical center\u2019s termination<\/a> of gender-affirming care for minors, which came amid the Trump administration\u2019s threats to cut Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n

Members of several citywide LGBTQ+ organizations \u2014 including The NEW Pride Agenda, Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn and Trans formative Schools \u2014 gathered in the public plaza across from the hospital at around 1 p.m. Protesters held signs reading \u201cNYU SUPPORT TRANS KIDS\u201d and \u201cGENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE SAVES LIVES\u201d while chanting \u201cStand up, fight now\u201d and \u201cNo fear, trans youth belong here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"(Jason Alpert-Wisnia for WSN)<\/p>\n

\u201cNYU has shown that they care a lot about their money,\u201d Abby Stein, a Brooklyn rabbi, told WSN. \u201cAnything that people can do to disrupt business as usual, whether it is at the university campus, whether it is at the health campus\u00a0\u2014 keeping in mind not to disrupt people who are getting care \u2014 I think that\u2019s the most powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten minutes after the rally started, transgender activists, local elected officials and community organizers, including civil rights activist and former whistleblower Chelsea Manning and former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, were called into the center of a circle to give speeches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur taxpayer money is being spent on foreign policy debacles all across the world right now,\u201d Manning said. \u201cIn South America, Central America, the Middle East, Gaza, the West Bank and now a particularly large one in Iran. So why is it that we have so much money that we don\u2019t even know where to allocate it, but we can\u2019t seem to find funding for healthcare for ourselves and for our community?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two individuals on a balcony nearby began chanting \u201cViva Trump\u201d during Manning\u2019s speech, but Manning raised her voice and garnered cheers from the crowd. Lander, who was also recently at a rally for NYU\u2019s faculty union, called NYU Langone\u2019s actions \u201cshameful\u201d and said that \u201cno squawking\u201d from the federal government permits the medical center to participate in gender-based discrimination.<\/p>\n

The demonstration comes after<\/a> a rally at the Stonewall National Monument last month as groups continue to organize across the city to defend transgender rights, where hundreds of advocates congregated and chanted similar phrases.<\/p>\n

Last week, more than 70 New York elected officials signed a letter<\/a> calling on NYU Langone to \u201cimmediately reinstate\u201d gender-affirming care for minors, citing mental health risks and human rights law. State Senator Kristen Gonzalez drafted the letter, which was addressed to Robert Grossman, vice president of NYU Langone\u2019s Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n

NYU Langone initially terminated at least two gender-affirming care appointments for minors around a year ago, but reinstated them after New York Attorney General Letitia James threatened legal action, claiming the decision violated anti-discrimination laws. NYU is one of more than 40 hospitals nationwide to have terminated<\/a> gender-affirming care programs for minors over the past year, according to a February report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen massive capitulations by hospitals and elected officials all over the country,\u201d transgender rights activist Lorelei Crean said. \u201cBecause it is one of the most vulnerable groups in the country, there are so few elected officials willing to defend trans youth, and it\u2019s something that\u2019s really important to stand up for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact at Ganga Subramanian at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 80 protesters rallied outside NYU Langone Health\u2019s Kips Bay location on Sunday to denounce the medical center\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-149653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149653","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=149653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}