New York Attorney General Letitia James warned hospitals Monday that discontinuing transgender procedures for minors in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting federal funding for such services would violate state law.
In a Feb. 3 letter to health care providers, James said that state anti-discrimination laws remain in effect regardless of federal funding availability. She cited protections for individuals based on “gender identity,” among other characteristics.
“Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law,” James wrote….