NY AG Letitia James Tells Hospitals They Must Defy Trump's Anti-Trans Order

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has issued a warning to health care centers across the state that are considering ending their gender-affirming care programs due to a recent executive order from President Donald Trump: Doing so will violate state law.

Last fall, New York voters passed a constitutional amendment expanding protections against discrimination for several groups, including transgender and nonbinary people. But after Trump issued an order barring gender-affirming care treatments for trans youth and some trans adults, some health care centers began canceling appointments for individuals who had been scheduled to have their treatments continue.

Trump’s order contains a number of bogus claims, including that health care professionals are “maiming and sterilizing” children, and wrongly insinuates that a large number of people who receive gender-affirming care experience regret. The order also falsely calls gender-affirming care a “dangerous trend,” errantly pushing the far right talking point that trans youth are merely taking part in a fad or a “social contagion.”

Trump’s order bars federal assistance to health care centers that provide transgender youth and adults as old as 19 with gender-affirming care options, including puberty blockers and hormones, treatments that are still available to cisgender youth as prescribed by health care professionals under the order — clearly a discriminatory action. It also blocks surgeries for transgender youth, a rare treatment plan that is typically only offered to older teens where other options have failed, and which is also still offered to cisgender youth.

https://truthout.org/articles/ny-ag-letitia-james-tells-hospitals-they-must-defy-trumps-anti-trans-order/

At lest one state AG with guts and the balls to tell the orange slime off!