{"id":742,"date":"2025-04-25T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=742"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:44:58","slug":"council-strengthens-legal-protections-for-people-seeking-gender-affirming-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/04\/25\/council-strengthens-legal-protections-for-people-seeking-gender-affirming-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Council strengthens legal protections for people seeking gender-affirming care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/health-care\/nyc-council-strengthens-legal-protections-transgender-patients\">Crain&#8217;s New York Business<\/a> \u2013 By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/author\/amanda-dambrosio\">Amanda D&#8217;Ambrosio<\/a> | April 25, 2025<a href=\"mailto:amanda.dambrosio@crainsnewyork.com\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City Council passed a slate of bills on Thursday to bolster legal protections for people<br \/>seeking gender-arming services.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation comes months after local hospitals \u2013 including NYU Langone and Mount<br \/>Sinai \u2013 abruptly halted care for patients under 19 following an executive order that<br \/>threatened to pull federal funding from facilities providing services including puberty<br \/>blockers, hormone therapies or gender-arming surgeries to minors.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden cancellations sparked outrage among health care providers and LGBTQ<br \/>advocates, who warned that the disruptions sowed fear and undermined the city\u2019s longstanding reputation as a safe haven for gender-arming care. <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the new bills, sponsored by Brooklyn Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, shields people<br \/>who seek gender-arming care in the city from out-of-state lawsuits by allowing them to<br \/>countersue \u2013 a right that was previously exclusively held by city agencies. The legislation<br \/>marks an attempt to prevent frivolous lawsuits against people who seek gender-arming<br \/>services, as well as give patients the ability to defend their right to care, said Diana Adams,<br \/>executive director of the Chosen Family Law Center, which supported the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/health-care\/nyc-council-strengthens-legal-protections-transgender-patients\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/health-care\/nyc-council-strengthens-legal-protections-transgender-patients\">Crain&#8217;s New York Business<\/a> \u2013 By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/author\/amanda-dambrosio\">Amanda D&#8217;Ambrosio<\/a> | April 25, 2025<a href=\"mailto:amanda.dambrosio@crainsnewyork.com\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City Council passed a slate of bills on Thursday to bolster legal protections for people<br \/>seeking gender-arming services.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation comes months after local hospitals \u2013 including NYU Langone and Mount<br \/>Sinai \u2013 abruptly halted care for patients under 19 following an executive order that<br \/>threatened to pull federal funding from facilities providing services including puberty<br \/>blockers, hormone therapies or gender-arming surgeries to minors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/04\/25\/council-strengthens-legal-protections-for-people-seeking-gender-affirming-care\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-leg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}