A New York hospital system said it received a grand jury subpoena from federal prosecutors in Texas seeking information about children who received gender-affirming care and the medical providers who administered it.
NYU Langone is the first hospital system to publicly acknowledge receiving a subpoena for such records as part of a federal criminal investigation. But the foundation said in its statement on Tuesday that it was one of several institutions that received a subpoena from the Northern District of Texas on May 7. She was deciding how to respond.
NYU Langone Health includes seven inpatient facilities and more than 300 locations in the New York City area and Florida. The hospital system said plaintiffs want information on patients under 18 who received gender-affirming care from 2020 to 2026, as well as the names of providers.
This is the latest step in the Trump administration’s efforts to block sponsorship for transgender youth. NYU Langone has already been announced Earlier this year it ended such treatment for transgender children in the middle Funding threats From the federal government.
Last July, the Justice Department sent more than 20 civil subpoenas to doctors and clinics providing sexual care to minors, saying it was investigating “health care fraud, false statements and more.” Then-Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department was holding accountable “medical professionals and organizations that maimed children to serve a distorted ideology.”
A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas recently sided with the Justice Department that Rhode Island Hospital in Providence must comply with one of those subpoenas, seeking records surrounding gender-affirming care provided to children.
NYU Langone’s subpoena was brought up several times Tuesday during a federal court hearing in Providence regarding those records. Justice Department lawyers declined to reveal the exact date of the grand jury meeting, saying they could only speak to what has been reported publicly.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy then ordered the Justice Department to provide attorneys in the Rhode Island case with the grand jury affidavit because it was now public.
Since the Justice Department issued the civil subpoenas last year, court documents show that at least seven federal courts have agreed to eliminate or limit the expanded subpoenas, which required providers to turn over dates of birth, Social Security numbers and addresses of patients who received transgender care.
As doctors and hospitals grapple with these subpoenas, 11 families this week filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to block the Justice Department from obtaining the documents. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Maryland, is supported by families with transgender children who received care from hospitals across the United States.
The Justice Department said Tuesday that it does not comment on grand jury investigations.
NYU Langone and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas did not immediately return messages seeking comment Tuesday.
LGBTQ+ groups have condemned the latest federal requests for information about sexual care.
“We will not allow anti-trans extremists to turn our hospitals into hunting grounds,” Tyler Hack, executive director of the transgender rights group Christopher Street Project in New York, said in a statement. “The political gamesmanship of weaponizing Americans’ private health care information is not just an attack on transgender people — it is an attack on every American who benefits from basic patient and provider privacy.”