"Your medical decisions and personal health information belong to you, not the government," Mamdani wrote in a post to X on June 15.https://www.advocate.com/politics/mamdani-trans-youth-records-subpoena 🔗Quispe López (16 June 2026)
In an amicus brief, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pushing back on the Justice Department's effort to obtain the private medical records of transgender minors from NYU Langone Health via criminal subpoena. Mamdani announced on Monday that the New York City Law Department had filed the brief "in support of transgender New Yorkers" last week.
The amicus brief supports a motion filed by the ACLU, NYCLU, and Lambda Legal on behalf of impacted trans patients to block the DOJ from obtaining patient information, including names, of minors who had received gender-affirming care from the major New York City hospital system from 2020 onward.
"Your medical decisions and personal health information belong to you, not the government," Mamdani wrote in a post to X on June 15. "Proud to stand with trans and queer young people across New York in defending privacy and dignity for all."
The amicus brief comes after the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Northern District of Texas criminally subpoenaed NYU for the patient information, as well as information about their medical providers, despite medical privacy laws protecting confidential patient details. The DOJ's subpoena also included requests for information on whether NYU Langone codes gender-affirming medical care under procedure names that do not specifically apply to trans people.
