NYU Langone\u2019s decision comes amid Trump administration threats to cut funding to providers who treat trans youth<\/p>\n
NYU Langone Health, one of New York City\u2019s major hospital networks, announced this week that it will shut down its gender\u2011affirming care program for minors, as the Trump administration<\/a> escalates threats to strip federal funding from providers that treat trans youth.<\/p>\n In a statement to the Guardian, spokesperson Steve Ritea said that \u201cgiven the recent departure of our medical director, coupled with the current regulatory environment, we made the difficult decision to discontinue our Transgender Youth Health Program.\u201d He added that the hospital\u2019s pediatric mental health services will continue.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NYU Langone\u2019s decision comes amid Trump administration threats to cut funding to providers who treat trans youth NYU Langone Health, one of New York City\u2019s major hospital networks, announced this week that it will shut down its gender\u2011affirming care program for minors, as the Trump administration escalates threats to strip federal funding from providers that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}