NYU Langone Health has disclosed that federal prosecutors in Texas issued a grand jury subpoena demanding records related to transgender youth who received medical treatment at their facilities.
The hospital system became the first to openly acknowledge receiving such a subpoena as part of an ongoing federal criminal probe. In a statement released Tuesday, NYU Langone revealed it was among multiple healthcare institutions that received the legal demand on May 7 from the Northern District of Texas. Hospital officials said they are currently evaluating their response options.
NYU Langone Health operates seven inpatient hospitals and more than 300 medical locations throughout the New York City region and Florida. According to the hospital system, federal prosecutors are demanding records of patients younger than 18 who received gender-affirming medical treatment between 2020 and 2026, along with the identities of their healthcare providers.
This development represents the most recent action in the Trump administration’s campaign to halt medical care for transgender minors. NYU Langone had previously announced this year that it would discontinue providing such treatments to transgender youth following federal funding threats.
In July, the Justice Department distributed more than 20 civil subpoenas to physicians and medical facilities offering gender care to minors, stating it was investigating “healthcare fraud, false statements and more.” Former Attorney General Pam Bondi declared the DOJ was ensuring accountability for “medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology.”
A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas recently ruled in favor of the Justice Department, determining that Rhode Island Hospital in Providence must comply with one of these subpoenas requesting records of gender-affirming care provided to children.
The NYU Langone subpoena was discussed multiple times Tuesday during a federal court proceeding in Providence concerning those records. A Justice Department lawyer refused to reveal the exact timing of the grand jury’s formation, stating they could only address publicly available information.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy subsequently directed the DOJ to provide attorneys in the Rhode Island case with the grand jury affidavit since it had become public knowledge.
Following the Justice Department’s issuance of civil subpoenas last year, court records indicate that at least seven federal courts have agreed to dismiss or restrict the broad subpoenas, which required providers to surrender birth dates, Social Security numbers and home addresses of patients who received transgender care.
While medical professionals and hospitals navigate these subpoenas, 11 families filed a class-action lawsuit this week attempting to prevent the DOJ from accessing the documents. The lawsuit, submitted in Maryland’s federal court, represents families with transgender children who have received care from hospitals nationwide.
The Justice Department stated Tuesday that it does not provide comments regarding grand jury investigations.
NYU Langone and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas did not respond immediately to requests for comment Tuesday.
LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations criticized the latest federal demands for gender care records.
“We will not allow anti-trans extremists to turn our hospitals into hunting grounds,” Tyler Hack, executive director of the transgender rights group the Christopher Street Project in New York, said in a statement. “Playing political games to weaponize Americans’ private healthcare information is not just an attack on trans people — it is an attack on every single American who benefits from basic patient-provider privacy.”
