NY hospital told to reopen its trans youth health services by Dem AG

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New York hospital told to reopen its trans youth health services by Democratic attorney general

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/new-york-hospital-ordered-to-restart-trans-youth-healthcare-program/ 🔗

Greg Owen (3 March 2026)

The New York Attorney General's office has ordered a hospital in New York City to reopen its shuttered Transgender Youth Health Program. NYU Langone Health in Manhattan closed its gender-affirming care program for trans youth on February 17, citing "the current regulatory environment."

In addition to counseling and mental health services, the program provided puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery for trans youth.

In a letter obtained by The New York Times dated February 25, a senior official in the attorney general's office warned hospital officials that the program's closure was in conflict with New York state anti-discrimination laws, by barring trans youth from obtaining services and medications available to other patients.

"New York state laws prohibit discrimination based on a patient's membership in a protected class," wrote Darsana Srinivasan, head of the New York AG's health care bureau.

NYU Langone began informing families of patients in the program last month that their care would end in February. The attorney general's office cited numerous complaints from those patients in the letter.

"You are hereby advised to immediately resume all service offerings as they had before the change in policy and to make medically necessary puberty-blocking medications and hormone therapies available for patients under 19 who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria," the letter advised NYU Langone's legal counsel, giving them 10 days to report on the hospital's compliance. That deadline is Saturday.