{"id":268270,"date":"2026-06-16T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268270\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:38:05","slug":"funding-for-gender-affirming-care-in-nyc-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268270\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding for gender-affirming care in NYC draws criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:NewsNation;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NewsNation&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NewsNation<\/a>) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/northeast\/ap-mayhem-mars-euphoria-as-new-york-city-celebrates-the-knicks-first-championship-in-53-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:New York City;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York City&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York City<\/a> officials announced plans to launch and run a gender-affirming care clinic in Queens on Friday. Mayor Zohran Mamdani says it\u2019s part of a campaign promise to invest $65 million in taxpayer funds to expand care for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/lgbtq\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:transgender;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;transgender&quot;}\" class=\"link \">transgender<\/a> residents. Dr. Ben Carson joins \u201cKatie Pavlich Tonight\u201d with his reaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NewsNation.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NewsNation.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NewsNation. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NewsNation) \u2014 New York City officials announced plans to launch and run a gender-affirming care clinic in Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101000,103608,79954,9,24,56,63,65,64,103609,82],"class_list":["post-268270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-care-clinic","tag-dr-ben-carson","tag-katie-pavlich","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-taxpayer-funds","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268270","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=268270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}