{"id":165432,"date":"2026-03-16T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165432\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:05:07","slug":"first-out-trans-woman-to-lead-new-nyc-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165432\/","title":{"rendered":"First Out Trans Woman to Lead New NYC Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TaylorTaylor Brown will be the first out trans leader in New York City government. (Credit: LinkedIn)<\/p>\n

About a month after a large Pride flag was removed<\/a> from the Stonewall National Monument following an order by President Donald Trump, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the first Mayor\u2019s Office for LGBTQIA+ Affairs.<\/p>\n

The new office will be led by Taylor Brown, the first out trans person to lead a New York City office, according to Gothamist<\/a>. Brown currently works in the civil rights bureau of the state Attorney General\u2019s office and has fought for trans women and girls who were banned from playing sports in Nassau County facilities.<\/p>\n

In his announcement of the office, which will focus on how agencies can help members of the LGBTQ+ community access affordable housing, healthcare and other services they traditionally don\u2019t have access to, Mamdani said the dedicated resource was a long time coming \u2014 especially as federal protections for these communities continue to get rolled back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took years of activism from community leaders who recognize how often queer New Yorkers fall through the cracks while attempting to access our city\u2019s social services,\u201d he said, according to Gothamist.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has issued executive orders<\/a> to eliminate the idea of a \u201cgender identity\u201d separate from sex and make sure that no funds are allocated to promote \u201cgender ideology.\u201d In February, federal guidance was issued on displaying \u201cnon-agency\u201d flags in National Parks, which included the international symbol of Pride: The flag outside of Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, the heart of the gay rights movement.<\/p>\n

The National Park Service also removed any mention of \u201ctransgender\u201d on its website, according to NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the same things as everyone else, and we deserve the same things as everyone else, and that\u2019s what this administration is about,\u201d Brown said after her appointment was announced. \u201cWe\u2019re all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her new role, Brown will also work to provide sanctuary protections for queer New Yorkers as well as those coming to the city after facing oppression elsewhere, and help ensure that other city agencies do not discriminate against people for their sexual orientation, gender or gender identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Brown will be the first out trans leader in New York City government. (Credit: LinkedIn) About a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1360,9,24,55,54,56,60986,67946],"class_list":["post-165432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-lgbtq","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-trans-women","tag-women-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165432","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=165432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}