{"id":279160,"date":"2026-06-26T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279160\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:24:09","slug":"new-york-city-funds-15-million-in-sex-change-initiatives-to-fight-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279160\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City funds $15 million in sex change initiatives to fight feds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> is pouring $15 million into new sex change initiatives for children and adults, framing the taxpayer-funded move as a defense against the federal government.<\/p>\n

The mayor’s office announced the multi-million-dollar package will establish a “direct care access fund” to subsidize providers who offer sex change procedures for children, and launch a dedicated call and text line, as well as fund research into LGBTQ+ healthcare access.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the city’s health department will launch a pilot program later this year at a Queens clinic to offer “gender-affirming hormone therapy” to adults at “no or low cost and regardless of immigration status.”<\/p>\n

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FILE – New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends the 2025 New York City Pride March on June 29, 2025 in New York City. (Noam Galai\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

MAMDANI TOUTS MASSIVE TAXPAYER-FUNDED INVESTMENT FOR TRANS HEALTHCARE: ‘FIRST STEP’<\/a><\/p>\n

In a fiery statement, Mamdani accused the federal government<\/a> of attempting to “intimidate patients, families and providers,” claiming the city is “stepping up” and will do “everything in our power to defend” the procedures.<\/p>\n

The mayor has directed the city’s law department to prepare for potential litigation to fight any federal efforts to restrict sex changes for children<\/a> and adults.<\/p>\n

Top city officials echoed Mamdani’s sharp rhetoric, with Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su blasting the federal government’s actions as a “dehumanization of transgender people” that is “not just cruel, it\u2019s dangerous.”<\/p>\n

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FILE – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani accused the federal government of attempting to “intimidate patients, families and providers.” (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

NEW YORK AG LETITIA JAMES ADVISES HOSPITALS TO IGNORE TRUMP EO ABOUT SEX-CHANGE PROCEDURES FOR MINORS<\/a><\/p>\n

The director of the Mayor\u2019s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs, Taylor Brown, accused the Trump administration of waging<\/a> an “ideological war” driven by “political instincts, not science.”<\/p>\n

The city’s announcement follows a recent legal clash over the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the city opposed federal grand jury subpoenas<\/a> seeking the medical records of transgender patients, and a federal judge recently granted an injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Justice from accessing the records.<\/p>\n

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FILE – Demonstrators rally against President Donald Trump’s executive actions targeting transgender people at Union Square in New York City on Feb. 7, 2025. (Stephanie Keith\/Bloomberg)<\/p>\n

DEMS ‘DELIBERATELY OBFUSCATING’ TRUTH ABOUT ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ WITH THIS CLAIM: WATCHDOG<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the multi-million-dollar price tag, some city officials are arguing that the $15 million investment<\/a> is not enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the New York City Council projected to receive an additional $2 billion in tax revenue over the current and upcoming fiscal years, Councilmember Tiffany Caban is pressuring the city to increase the sex change budget to $60 million, according to a report<\/a> from the Daily News.<\/p>\n

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“We got money for 500 more cops<\/a> in the executive budget, but we don\u2019t have money for healthcare and trans kids,” Caban said.<\/p>\n

City Budget Director Sherif Soliman has also signaled a desire to expand the program, calling the $15 million allocation a “start” and expressing hopes to funnel more money toward the initiatives within the city’s fiscal limits, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Koch is a Fox News Digital Editor, with a focus on high-impact events that shape national conversation.<\/p>\n

She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pouring $15 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9673,102497,9872,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":["post-279160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-childrens-health","tag-health-care-executive","tag-immigrant-rights","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279160","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=279160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}