The Department of Justice issued criminal subpoenas to NYU Langone and other hospitals seeking the names of transgender patients who were minors when they received gender-affirming care. Transgender rights advocates urged medical institutions to refuse compliance and protect sensitive patient information from federal courts. Representatives from Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, AIDS United, and parents of trans children described harms from breaches of medical privacy. NYU patients were notified on May 11 about a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the North District of Texas requesting identifying information and provider details for trans youth seen from 2020 to 2026. Advocates feared the government is building a nationwide system to investigate trans health care providers and families.
"“For half a century, abortion opponents have been executing a strategy to replace our reproductive rights with their beliefs,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Plan, said. “The weaponization of private health care information is one of their most tried and true tactics. The specifics vary of course, but the goal is always the same: Interfering with private decisions they don't like. For this administration and their allies, surveillance, subpoenas, and criminal prosecutions are all just instruments of control.”"
"National LGBTQ+ civil rights leaders are sounding the alarm after Trump's Department of Justice criminally subpoenaed NYU Langone and several other hospitals for the names of transgender patients who were minors when they received gender-affirming care. Transgender rights advocates across the country are urging medical institutions to not comply with the DOJ by refusing to release sensitive medical information about trans minors to federal courts."
"NYU patients were alerted on May 11 to a subpoena issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the North District of Texas, which requested the names of medical providers in addition to identifying information for trans youth patients seen from 2020 to 2026. The subpoena sought extensive patient information related to gender-affirming care, intensifying fears among advocates that the federal government is attempting to build a nationwide apparatus for investigating trans health care providers and families."
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