NYC Mayor Protects Transgender Healthcare With Executive Order
- Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order protecting transgender individuals and gender-affirming health care in NYC
- The order prevents the use of city resources to detain individuals providing or receiving gender-affirming health care services
- The order denies the use of resources by NYC to cooperate with any prosecution or investigation by another state of an individual for providing or receiving gender-affirming care
- The executive order also protects gender-affirming health care in NYC
- The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency in response to an increase in anti-gay legislation and laws passed nationwide.