In a rare and controversial move, New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered a Manhattan hospital to resume offering gender-transition treatment to transgender youth. NYU Langone had discontinued such treatments after funding threats from the Trump administration. It is now caught between the proverbial rock (HHS) and a hard place (NYAG).
Last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” seeking to restrict gender-transition treatment for people under 19. HHS then threatened hospitals with a cut off of federal Medicaid and Medicare funding for continuing such treatment for children.
Various European countries have also halted certain procedures after countervailing studies suggesting that the risks are too high. England’s National Health Service 2024 report on the subject, known as the Cass Report, found concerning evidence of harm for minors and inconclusive benefits.
James threatened “further action” if NYU Langone does not defy the Trump Administration, declaring that the cessation of its Transgender Youth Health Program violates New York anti-discrimination law by “jeopardizing access to medically necessary healthcare for some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers.”
NYU Langone had previously declared that it would no longer provide certain gender-transition treatments for patients under the age of 19.
James’s move could trigger a fascinating challenge. In the Feb. 25 letter signed by the attorney general’s health care bureau chief, Darsana Srinivasan, the state said that the federal regulatory change did not affect a “medical institution’s existing duties and obligations under New York law.” That raises an interesting conflict between state and federal regulations.
The letter gives the hospital until March 11 to comply and resume these treatments.
Effectively, James is ordering the hospital to defy the federal government. However, the hospital, not James or the state, would bear the financial and regulatory consequences.
While James does not state how she will penalize the hospital, the letter is likely sufficient to challenge the move. The question is whether the political costs for the NYU hospital are prohibitive. There is also the question of whether the HHS has standing or interest in challenging the move as a direct threat to federal authority.
The problem with a federal challenge is that nothing in the New York threat prevents the federal government from carrying out its intent to cut off funding. Hospitals would have to choose between penalties in New York or loss of funding in Washington. Nevertheless, New York’s move is a direct attack on the enforcement of federal policy by state hospitals.
Doctors normally decide what procedures they perform based on their training, ethics, and medical judgment.
Anti-discrimination law means you cannot refuse a patient because of who they are. But that is different from forcing a doctor to perform a procedure they believe is medically inappropriate.
So the real legal question here seems pretty straightforward: is New York preventing discrimination, or is it compelling doctors to perform a procedure?
Preventing discrimination is one thing. Compelling medical practice is another.
And when citizens stop defending that line, government quietly (or loudly) moves it.
All homoa are trans. A minority are sims. Some are boys and girls who are confused or dissatisfied with their bodies while passing through puberty. Gender (i.e. sex-correlated attributes) corruption is either homophobic or a choice made under the Pro-Choice religion for social progress or forward-looking capital returns. #HateLovesAbortion
That’s right. From now on, even if they change their minds, you better G. D. remove that kid’s wienerschnitzel or you gonna answer to me. Now start cutting. Get that thing out a here, NOW!
More proof. Libs leave the kids alone.
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More proof that dustoff has a thing for kids. Leave them alone dustoff.
Yeah Libs really care about our kids.
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NOT!
Why is Letitia not in jail for morgage fraud?
Research it and get back to us.
You can prevent people from doing gender transitions. You can’t force people to do gender transitions. Leitia James fails to understand how the law works.
James is a lawyer, NY AG in fact. And she doesn’t know the law? You, an anonymous commenter who can’t think.
Come on Man! Letitia don’t care about no stinkin Federal requirements when they come from Orange Man Bad! Leti only needs a few whack job Black Robe Illuminati to back her position of defiance-at-any-cost (to the hospital that is). Kalshi has odds Leti can find at least one Black Robe Nut Case to get this moving for a few years! NY the Dump continues its journey to Communist Nirvana. Haha.
“don’t care about no stinkin Federal requirements …” That’s the what Turley wrote. Good catch.
I strongly suspect that James’ initiative is purely cynical, that she is devoid of empathy for the cause to psychologically condition minors into undertaking medical and surgical procedures to nullify their biological genders in aim of simulating the opposite gender — she is demonstrating her willing to destroy innocent young lives in pursuit of her own selfish political objectives
This is sick! Leave our children alone!
Um… what about the children who WANT to transition? You would deny them that?
At what point do the parents stop having parental rights? What if a 12 year old wanted to become a pirate? Would he or she be able remove one eye and get a peg leg?
Asking for a friend (or a Supreme Court justice).
So children are chattel? Parents can force them to do their bidding? Beat them, force them to eat dog food, deny them basic rights.
Do you actually think all parents are good people? Many, like yourself, have proven to be incapable and incompetent in child raising, especially when you would force them to become a pirate and cut off their leg to fulfill your deranged imagination of what their childhood should be. Did you actually send them to pirate school?
Yes, just like we “deny” them the right to drink alcoholic beverages and participate in s*xual activity with adults. The age of consent means the age that a person can reasonably be expected to understand the consequences of his or her actions (con=with, sent=sense). Someone who is not legally mature enough to HAVE s*x is logically not mature enough to CHANGE s*x. On the other hand, logic is anathema to the left, so there’s that.
This demand by Letitia James reveals totally the Democratic quest for power. It has nothing to do with health care. It has everything to do with James defying Trump. Letitia James does not practice the law, she uses the law.
I wonder WHO is going to pay the bill , when these kids will start suing. Because the slice & dice failed to fix their mental issues.
Libs are sick.
And yet the mentally deranged New Yorkers continue to elect the mentally deranged Democrats. The inmates are really running the asylum.
So all NY’ers are sick? Wise old lawyer. Na… sick deranged ignorant more like it. Die soon.
Bill? Come on dustoff. Think will you. Dustoff is stupid.