"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.""
"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. NYU Langone has not yet disclosed whether it plans to comply with the subpoena and did not return The Advocate's request for comment."
"Beyond its efforts to restrict gender-affirming care outright, the Trump administration has made repeated attempts to punish hospitals that legally provide gender-affirming services to transgender youth and to obtain medical records from their gender-affirming care programs. The federal government has largely been unsuccessful because medical records, especially for minors, are strictly protected under laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or ."
""I urge every provider to fight these subpoenas," Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Siegel said at the rally. "Every hospital in New York regards patient privacy as sacrosanct. Otherwise, no patient could feel comfortable walking through their doors.""
Organizers and elected officials gathered in lower Manhattan to urge NYU Langone to keep transgender-related medical records private and to continue receiving support for gender-affirming care from city and state governments. NYU Langone had not disclosed whether it would comply with a subpoena and did not respond to a request for comment. Speakers said the subpoena aims to intimidate hospitals and push transgender people out of public life. They emphasized that trans young people deserve dignity, privacy, safety, and access to health care without fear of political disclosure. The federal government has sought to punish hospitals providing gender-affirming services and to obtain medical records, but protections for medical records, especially for minors, have limited success under laws such as HIPAA.
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