Mamdani unveils $15M taxpayer-funded plan to expand trans care for youths across NYC

Source: New York Post

Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a $15 million plan to expand transgender medical services for youths and adults across New York City, as local hospital systems have shuttered their treatment programs amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration. The taxpayer-funded initiative appears to be a scaled-down version of Mamdani’s campaign promise to spend $65 million on medical treatments for transgender New Yorkers, and will go toward establishing a fund to ensure Big Apple youths will retain access to those services. “Every New Yorker should have the freedom to live as themselves and access the health care they need,” Mamdani said in a statement Friday.