By Matt Tracy, published February 7, 2025

State and city lawmakers rallied with advocates outside of NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital in Manhattan on Feb. 6 to demand the complete restoration of gender-affirming care services nearly a week after at least three providers — including NYU Langone — allegedly canceled appointments for youth in response to the Trump administration’s executive order targeting gender-affirming care.

“We’re putting NYU on notice that we’re going to act if they don’t change their mind now,” Manhattan Assemblymember Harvey Epstein said during the press conference, which also drew out elected officials including State Senators Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Jabari Brisport, Assemblymembers Deborah Glick and Tony Simone, and Councilmember Erik Bottcher, who chairs the Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus. The event was organized by State Senator Kristen Gonzalez and also featured Public Advocate Jumaane Williams as well as City Councilmembers Keith Powers and Carlina Rivera.

The press conference marked the latest chapter in the fallout stemming from President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order, which called to withhold federal funds for providers of gender-affirming care for individuals under the age of 19 and directed the Health and Human Services secretary to “take all appropriate actions to end” gender-affirming care, “including regulatory and sub-regulatory actions.”

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