New York Attorney General, Letitia James, reminded the New York hospitals that refuse to provide gender transition servicesalso to minors, could violate the laws of the State Against discrimination.
A warning that has moved in a letter this Monday in which it also remembers that about twenty states, including New York, presented a demand against the Trump administration with which they managed to paralyze their threat of trimming funds to institutions that continue to provide these treatments.
The US president signed an executive order last week that prohibits gender reaffirmation treatment for children under 19 yearswhich considers a “sexual mutilation.” “Deny services such as hormonal therapy to trans people, while these services are offered to other patients, illegal discrimination is considered According to state law, “says Prosecutor James in her letter to health centers.
In her letter, the attorney general also points out that the threat of losing financing federal It does not constitute a legal justification To refuse to provide these services and remind them that identity and gender expression are protected by the New York Human Rights Law.
The prosecutor’s letter occurs after the Nyu Langone hospital will start canceling appointments For gender statement to patients under 19, after knowing Trump’s executive order, according to the digital newspaper ‘Gothamist’, cited in turn by the EFE agency.
Since he returned to the White House, Donald Trump has the trans community in the spotlight and is implementing a battery of traffic policies, including a decree for prohibit trans people serve in the army. In addition, he barely took possession, the republican president proclaimed that there are only two genres: Man and woman.
Source: Lasexta
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