New Yorkers urge noncompliance with DOJ's criminal subpoenas for NYU Langone's trans medical recordshttps://www.advocate.com/politics/national/nyc-trans-youth-subpoena-rally 🔗Jack Walker (13 May 2026)
Elected officials and LGBTQ+ organizers gathered near New York City Hall on Wednesday morning, urging a major hospital system to reject what advocates described as an illegal subpoena seeking medical records for transgender youth.
NYU Langone Health announced last week that it was one of several hospitals nationwide to be subpoenaed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. Prosecutors ordered the release of medical records for youth who received gender-affirming care from the hospital, plus information about their doctors, despite these records being protected under medical privacy laws.
NYU Langone has not yet disclosed whether it plans to comply with the subpoena and did not return The Advocate's request for comment. Organizers with several LGBTQ+ groups and elected officials who support them gathered in lower Manhattan on Wednesday to urge the hospital to keep these records private and to call for continued support for gender-affirming care from the city and state governments.
The subpoena "is an attempt to intimidate hospitals to eliminate public health care and push trans people out of public life," said Kei Williams, executive director of the NEW Pride Agenda, during the rally. "Trans young people deserve dignity. They deserve privacy. They deserve safety, and the freedom to access health care without fear that their personal information will be turned over to political actors."
