{"id":230277,"date":"2026-05-13T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230277\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:50:15","slug":"new-yorkers-urge-nyu-langone-not-to-comply-with-doj-subpoena-for-trans-youth-medical-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230277\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers Urge NYU Langone Not to Comply With DOJ Subpoena for Trans Youth Medical Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared in The Advocate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elected officials and LGBTQ+ organizers gathered near New York City Hall on Wednesday morning, urging a major hospital system to reject what advocates described as an illegal subpoena seeking medical records for transgender youth.<\/p>\n

NYU Langone Health announced last week<\/a> that it was one of several hospitals nationwide to be subpoenaed<\/a> by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Texas<\/a>. Prosecutors ordered the release of medical records for youth who received gender-affirming care<\/a> from the hospital, plus information about their doctors, despite these records being protected under medical privacy laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NYU Langone has not yet disclosed whether it plans to comply with the subpoena and did not return The Advocate’s request for comment. Organizers with several LGBTQ+ groups and elected officials who support them gathered in lower Manhattan on Wednesday to urge the hospital to keep these records private and to call for continued support for gender-affirming care<\/a> from the city and state governments.<\/p>\n

The subpoena \u201cis an attempt to intimidate hospitals to eliminate public health care and push trans people out of public life,\u201d said Kei Williams, executive director of the NEW Pride Agenda<\/a>, during the rally. \u201cTrans young people deserve dignity. They deserve privacy. They deserve safety, and the freedom to access health care without fear that their personal information will be turned over to political actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond its efforts to restrict gender-affirming care outright, the Trump administration has made repeated attempts to punish hospitals that legally provide gender-affirming services to transgender<\/a> youth and to obtain medical records from their gender-affirming care programs.<\/p>\n

The federal government has largely been unsuccessful because medical records, especially for minors, are strictly protected under laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A federal court recently denied<\/a> the Justice Department access to medical records from a hospital system<\/a> in the Washington, D.C. area. At least six other attempts to obtain patient records have faced challenges in court, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI urge every provider to fight these subpoenas,\u201d Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Siegel said at the rally. \u201cEvery hospital in New York regards patient privacy as sacrosanct. Otherwise, no patient could feel comfortable walking through their doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organizers urged the hospital to take advantage of New York state\u2019s \u201cshield laws<\/a>,\u201d which prohibit officers and state officials from \u201ccooperating with investigations into reproductive or gender-affirming health care\u201d when those services were \u201clawfully provided in New York,\u201d according to the New York attorney general\u2019s office website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York lawmakers knew this moment was coming and prepared for it. We have some of the most robust shield laws in the country,\u201d said the parent of a trans child who delivered remarks at the rally. \u201cBut laws are only as strong as the will to enforce them. So to the leaders of the state and city, and to the leadership of the hospitals that provide life- saving care to our children, I say: Hold the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s rally was organized by several LGBTQ+ advocacy groups based in New York City, including PFLAG-NYC<\/a>, Equality New York<\/a>, the NEW Pride Agenda<\/a>, and Trans formative Schools<\/a>, as well as representatives from the NYC Trans & Queer Coalition<\/a>. Organizers described the rally as a show of both collective pushback against the subpoena, plus support for trans health care at large.<\/p>\n

The demonstration comes amid broader threats to gender-affirming care even in New York City, which has long been regarded<\/a> as a hub for trans-inclusive health care in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared in The Advocate. Elected officials and LGBTQ+ organizers gathered near New York City Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4429,9,24,55,54,56,90415],"class_list":["post-230277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-healthcare","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-trans-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230277","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=230277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}