Transgender patients and their families are suing NYU Langone Hospital and the Department of Justice to halt a federal subpoena filed last month demanding patient records from all minors the health system has provided gender affirming care to since 2020 be turned over to the Trump administration.
The suit demands Manhattan’s federal court block the hospital from turning over the records, which would include the names of trans minors, their doctors and the medical care they received, arguing the subpoena violates patients’ civil rights, state law prohibiting breaches of physician-patient privilege and is a “gross overreach of governmental power, founded on an improper purpose to ‘end’ gender-affirming medical care and cast transgender persons into the shadows.”
