City-run gender-affirming care clinic for trans patients coming to New York City

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

City-run gender-affirming care clinic for trans patients coming to New York City

https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/trans-health-clinic-nyc-queens 🔗

Jack Walker (8 Jun 2026)

As the Trump administration seeks to limit access to gender-affirming care for minors and public insurance enrollees, New York City officials now plan to launch and run a transgender health clinic themselves.

On Friday, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced plans to open a gender-affirming care clinic in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, Crain's New York Business first reported. The department has not officially announced when the clinic will launch.

Opening the new clinic marks "one of the first times that the public health department has ever taken that step," City Health Commissioner Alister Martin said at a New York City Council budget hearing on Friday.

The city health department did not immediately return The Advocate's request for comment. But plans for the clinic come as the federal government has become increasingly hostile toward gender-affirming care, and as medical providers across the country have closed trans health services to youth, fearing financial and legal penalties from the federal government.

In New York City, two major health networks, NYU Langone Health and the Mount Sinai Hospital System, have closed their gender-affirming care programs to minors, and have not publicly disclosed when they plan to reopen them.

[Devlyn ✅]

Should name it the trump center just to make him mad. 🤣