{"id":152084,"date":"2026-03-04T07:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:03:13","slug":"ag-letitia-james-demands-nyu-langone-resume-transgender-treatment-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152084\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Letitia James demands NYU Langone resume transgender treatment for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered NYU Langone, one of the Big Apple\u2019s largest hospitals, to reinstate\u00a0gender-affirming care for minors<\/a> \u2014 before ominously warning it would face \u201cfurther action\u201d if it did not comply.<\/p>\n

In a letter sent to the health care system on Feb. 25, the Empire State\u2019s chief lawyer claimed the absence of the Transgender Youth Health Program was \u201cjeopardizing\u201d health care access to vulnerable New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cNYU Langone appears to be suddenly and indefinitely cancelling transgender children\u2019s future appointments thereby jeopardizing access to medically necessary healthcare for some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Attorney General Letitia James speaks to the crowd at a protest event in Manhattan organized by The Public Theater in response to recent actions by Federal Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.C.E) in Minnesota. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

The medical center \u201cpermanently\u201d axed the program in February after the Trump administration threatened to yank federal funding to the hospital if it continued providing gender-affirming care.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the recent departure of our medical director, coupled with the current regulatory environment, we made the difficult decision to discontinue our Transgender Youth Health Program,\u201d a NYU Langone spokesman told The Post in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are committed to helping patients in our care manage this change. This does not impact our pediatric mental health care programs, which will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

James claimed that NYU Langone\u2019s decision violated New York\u2019s anti-discrimination laws after the hospital voluntarily made the change instead of being forced by any law.<\/p>\n

\u201cNYU Langone\u2019s change in policy is self-imposed; there has been no change in federal law to require the cessation of medically necessary transgender healthcare,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n

\"TheTech4Health Institute, at NYU Langone Health in Long Island City, Queens on May 8, 2025. Emmy Park for NY Post<\/p>\n

The US Department of Health and Human Services had proposed cutting federal Medicaid and Medicare funds to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to minors, an action part of the wider Trump administration crackdown on transgender treatment for children.<\/p>\n

The proposals did not change federal law and shouldn\u2019t have impacted existing duties at \u201cmedical institutions,\u201d James\u2019 health care bureau chief, Darsana Srinivasan, ruled.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe sudden discontinuation of medically necessary transgender healthcare can have severe, negative health outcomes,\u201d Srinivasan wrote in the letter she signed. \u201cAccordingly, the Attorney General is extremely concerned by your institution\u2019s decision to cease the provision of care to this vulnerable, minority population.\u201d<\/p>\n

James\u2019 office gave the hospital until March 11 \u2014 or it will face \u201cfurther action.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter did not specify what steps James\u2019 office would take if NYU Langone failed to meet the deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NYU Langone was one of several high-profile hospitals to pause its gender-affirming care for youth after President Trump threatened to\u00a0remove federal funding from medical centers<\/a>\u00a0treating trans minors late last year.<\/p>\n

After dissolving\u00a0 the program, NYU Langone\u2019s website changed the \u201cTrangender Youth Health Program\u201d to the current \u201cGender & Sexuality Service.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post has reached out to NYU Langone.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered NYU Langone, one of the Big Apple\u2019s largest hospitals, to reinstate\u00a0gender-affirming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[398,412,57,9,11,10,22199,9889,11389,58],"class_list":["post-152084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-letitia-james","tag-lgbtqia","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nyu-langone-medical-center","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-rights","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152084","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=152084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}