Attorney General Letitia James said the state’s anti-discrimination laws require that the procedures remain available.
New York Attorney General Letitia James warned hospitals on Feb. 3 that discontinuing transgender procedures for minors in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting federal funding for such services would violate state law.
“Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law,” James wrote.
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