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The order protects patients of NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and other New York City providers while their constitutional challenge proceeds.
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The order protects patients of NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and other New York City providers while their constitutional challenge proceeds.
The order protects patients of NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and other New York City providers while their constitutional challenge proceeds.
Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:
A federal judge handed Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union a significant victory on behalf of transgender young people and their families on Wednesday, temporarily blocking the Trump administration from obtaining identifying information and sensitive medical records belonging to people who received gender-affirming care as minors in New York City. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla restrained the Department of Justice from seeking, receiving, using, or disseminating the information through grand jury or administrative subpoenas. She also prohibited NYU Langone Health from turning over protected records. Failla provisionally certified a class covering people who received treatment for gender dysphoria while younger than 18 at New York City health care institutions, including NYU Langone and Mount Sinai Health System, from January 1, 2020, through May 5, 2026.
The ruling follows months of retreat by New York hospitals under federal pressure. NYU Langone ended its Transgender Youth Health Program in February after the administration threatened federal funding for institutions providing gender-affirming care to minors. Mount Sinai curtailed care days later. Then, in May, NYU Langone notified patients that federal prosecutors in Texas had subpoenaed records and provider identities, prompting three families and two young adults to sue before the hospital could disclose them.
In Coe v. Blanche, Judge Katherine Polk Failla issues a ruling blocking the Trump Regime’s DOJ from seizing the medical records of trans minors from NYC hospitals such as NYU Langone and Mount Sinai.
See Also:
LGBTQ Nation: Federal judge slaps down DOJ’s demand for trans kids’ medical information
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My original surgeon was Heidi Wittenberg who was at Brownstein Crane in San Francisco at the time (2017). Since then I understand she left to set up her own office to continue doing the same surgeries.
The surgeon for my revision was Rachel Bluebond-Langner at NYU Langone.
My first recovery was plagued by a side effect known as granulation tissue. It is relatively common but for me it was so extensive that it ruined a lot of the work done in the surgery. I was essentially left being only able to dilate with tiny dilators (2 sizes thinner than size 1).
I liked my original surgeon and she was a sweetheart as far as bedside manner goes. In retrospect there were aspects that weren't so great. It was a shorter stay in hospital and they send you home with your catheter which suuucks. I had to return home to NY after a few weeks and the rest of my care was handled via photos and phone calls. Unfortunately the surgeon began showing signs of forgetting about the specifics of my issues and giving me redundant/repeat advice.
My original surgeon/facility also didn't as much support for you postoperatively. I now have a patient liaison (a RN) who checks on me by text and who I can contact if I have questions. NYU also enrolls you immediately in pelvic floor PT to help dilation go more smoothly. They are just super on the ball and seem a lot more modern in the way that they are really zeroing in on all the little things that make the experience better.
Rachel herself is just a rockstar. She has a brilliant memory of every little aspect of your care, and she's just awesome. I feel super well cared for by her and her team.
Lastly, as far as cost goes it varies tremendously depending on your insurance coverage. Both procedures were covered by insurance for me, with various amounts of coinsured/copays due depending on the amount of out of pocket maximums I had left for the year.
Attorney General Letitia James has demanded NYU Langone restart care for transgender youth. Will NYC Mayor Mamdani act as well?
Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning:
In the last month, two major hospitals in New York City—NYU Langone and Mount Sinai—have ended their gender-affirming care programs for patients under 19. The decisions are acts of cowardice and capitulation to the Trump administration, and they violate state civil rights law in the process, given that Trump's threats against the hospitals are not law. In the immediate aftermath, Democratic politicians across the state with real power to force the hospitals back into compliance failed to act. But that changed last night. Attorney General Letitia James ordered NYU Langone to resume care or face legal action. It is good to finally see action protecting transgender youth in the state. Now, it remains to be seen if Mayor Mamdani will follow suit and use the tools available to him to return care to the trans youth affected. "NYU Langone's change in policy is self-imposed; there has been no change in federal law to require the cessation of medically necessary transgender healthcare," says the AG in a letter to NYU Langone. "In sum, no federal action has changed the law; medically necessary healthcare for transgender adolescents remains legal and covered by federal programs. Without a formal change in the law, meaning an action from which legal consequences will flow, such as a published final rule upheld by the courts, NYU Langone's legal obligations to its patients are unchanged," the letter continued, giving the hospital 10 days to comply or face legal consequences.
This is not the first time James has used legal threats against the hospital. In February 2025, after NYU Langone canceled appointments for trans youth patients following Trump's executive order, James threatened to sue, warning that refusing care to trans patients while continuing it for cisgender patients constituted discrimination under state law. Thousands protested outside NYU Langone's Tisch Hospital. NYU Langone quietly reinstated appointments, though some patients reported being blocked from advancing their care beyond its current stage. The hospital never issued a public statement acknowledging the reversal.
The latest showdown comes after the Trump administration proposed rules in December that would strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from any hospital that provides gender-affirming care to patients under 18. The threat has proven effective in scaring hospitals into compliance—more than 40 nationwide have now paused or ended some form of gender-affirming care for minors. But the proposed rules are not law. The public comment period closed on February 17, final rules are not expected until spring at the earliest, and the rules themselves likely violate federal statute. Section 1801 of the Social Security Act explicitly bars the federal government from using Medicare or Medicaid regulations to control the practice of medicine, stating: "Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided." Now that AG James has acted, many wonder if Mayor Mamdani will follow suit. The mayor ran on a sweeping promise to protect transgender healthcare—pledging $65 million in public investment, direct provision of care through the city's public hospital system, and aggressive enforcement of city human rights law against hospitals that pre-comply with Trump's demands. Now faced with his first major crisis targeting transgender people, however, his office has been largely silent. The mayor posted a statement on social media on February 19 calling NYU Langone's decision "yet another example of a private institution capitulating to the federal government's assault on transgender rights" and pledging that "New York City will continue to be a refuge for the LGBTQIA+ community." But he has not used any of the concrete tools at his disposal to bring care back, many of which do not require substantial investment. He has stayed completely quiet on whether his office is even in the process of taking steps to provide care for trans youth affected by the closures, even though he has a substantial set of tools to do so—and even though his own campaign platform was built around using them.
New York AG Letitia James (D) standing on business, as she told NYU Langone to reinstate gender-affirming care to trans youths or face legal action. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) needs to do the same, since he made protecting trans people a big campaign pitch.
A federal grand jury in the Northern District of Texas issued the subpoena demanding information on every minor who received gender-affirmin
S. Baum at Erin In The Morning:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas has issued the first known criminal subpoena directed at a health care institution for offering gender-affirming care to transgender youth—at NYU Langone, a hospital situated almost 2,000 miles away in the greater New York City area. The notification was sent to patients (and/or parents) via their online portal just after 7pm on May 11, as per screenshots obtained by Erin in the Morning. In a public statement, Langone indicated there were other health care institutions that received this kind of subpoena, too. “We are writing to inform you that on May 7, 2026, NYU Langone Hospitals (”NYULH”) was one of several institutions that received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Texas,” the notification reads. “Among other requests, the subpoena directs NYULH to provide information pertaining to patients under the age of 18 who received gender affirming care at NYULH between 2020-2026, as well as the names of NYULH providers and others who were involved in offering such care at NYULH in that timeframe.”
It continues: “Pursuant to the New York State Shield Law, any entity in New York State that receives a request for information regarding legally protected health activity, such as the provision of reproductive health care or gender-affirming care, must make a reasonable attempt to notify the individuals to whom that request pertains at least 30 days before complying with or providing information in response to the request.” “We understand that these developments may be concerning to our patients, providers, and others,” it concluded. “Please know that NYU Langone takes the privacy of your protected health information very seriously and we are evaluating our response to the subpoena.” Almost two dozen hospitals or clinics have received subpoenas from the Department of Justice under the Trump Administration targeting young trans patients. But this is a dire escalation. Those were administrative subpoenas—meaning the cases were civil in nature. But this round of subpoenas entails a criminal case, meaning providers or hospital officials face risk of arrest and jail time. It does not appear to target parents of trans kids or trans patients.
News of the subpoena also means the federal government has assembled a grand jury, an important step towards criminal proceedings. At the same time, New York has strong Shield Laws to protect providers from out-of-state prosecution. That same policy is what mandated the notification sent to patients and/or parents. It is unclear what information, exactly, the DOJ requested; whether this includes personally identifiable data on patients, such as names, or whether the requested information can be anonymized; nor does the statement indicate what crime the federal government alleges Langone committed. The hospital may try to fight the subpoena, in whole or in part, in court—but because the federal government is strategically pursuing the case in one of the most conservative courts in the country, Langone faces an uphill battle. This round of litigation could also put the efficacy of Shield Laws to the test. “This is a blatant unlawful effort by the [Department of Justice] to intimidate providers of gender affirming care to trans youth by engaging in judge and forum shopping,” Alejandra Caraballo, a Harvard Law instructor and legal scholar told Erin in the Morning.
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Gender-affirming care remains legal in New York; in fact, it benefits from robust protections against federal encroachment. Attorney General Letitia James condemned hospitals that caved over the last year for rolling back gender-affirming care over Trumpian threats, on the grounds that in doing so they were discriminating against transgender New Yorkers.
This is government overreach by the Trump Regime’s Department of Injustice.
See Also:
HuffPost: DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Blue State Hospital
Them: NYU Langone Criminally Subpoenaed by Federal Court for Trans Youth Care Records
The Advocate: Trump administration seeks transgender patient records from NYU Langone
LGBTQ Nation: Trump DOJ now using criminal subpoenas to turn pro-trans “hospitals into hunting grounds”
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