Decision prompts outrage, protest
New York University’s medical center has canceled “gender-affirming care” procedures for minors following President Donald Trump’s executive order to stop such treatments.
Two children aged 12 were scheduled to receive puberty blockers but were told that their appointments were canceled, Washington Square News reported. Doctors told the patients and their families they could not proceed because of “‘the new administration’ and that they were ‘awaiting more guidance,’” the school newspaper reported.
One doctor told a patient’s parent that the hospital could no longer provide “gender-affirming care.”
Transgender activists protested outside the hospital following the cancellation of the puberty blocker appointments. Hundreds assembled at St. Vartan Park to demonstrate against NYU Langone Health, MSN reported.
New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal also condemned the cancellations in a post on X, stating he is “extremely disturbed by reports that NYU Langone has paused providing gender affirming care to new patients under the age of 19.”
“While I understand NYU Langone is responding to the outrageous Executive Order from the Trump Administration, I would hope that in this time of uncertainty, all New York hospitals and healthcare providers will prioritize the health and well-being of patients,” he stated.
However, New York Attorney General Letitia James instructed hospitals to continue providing “gender-affirming care” on Monday, the Associated Press reported.
“Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws,” she wrote in a letter to the hospitals.
This “care” includes therapy, surgical interventions, counseling, and other treatments for trans-identifying individuals looking to “change” genders. For some patients, this means severing healthy reproductive organs and injecting cross-sex hormones into the body.
President Donald Trump signed the “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” executive order last month, directing government agencies to stop funding “gender-affirming care” such as surgeries or puberty blockers, The College Fix reported.
The order criticizes “maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided NYU with over $628 million in grants in 2023. The medical center received over $220 million in grants and contributions that year, $2.7 million of which came from the federal government, Washington Square News reported.
New York University is not the only school to cancel “gender-affirming care” procedures in the wake of Trump’s executive order.
Virginia Commonwealth University Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond also halted such procedures for patients under the age of 19, according to a statement from the hospital.
Similarly, Children’s National hospital in Washington D.C. is “pausing all puberty blockers and hormone therapy prescriptions for transgender youth patients, per the guidelines in the executive order issued by the White House this week,” according to a statement.
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