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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is looking to make good on his campaign promise to invest $65 million in taxpayer funds toward expanding access to \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a first step, my administration has made a $15 million investment in gender-affirming care over the next two years, and we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to make sure every trans and gender non-conforming New Yorker can live with the dignity, safety and freedom they deserve,\u201d Mamdani said at a Pride month celebration Tuesday. \u201cThe threats will continue and so will our relentless protection of trans people across this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite efforts from the Trump administration to keep taxpayer dollars from funding gender-transition services, the mayor and his administration are doubling down on their attempts to fund these procedures \u2014 and even looking for ways to circumvent the president\u2019s restrictions on gender-transition treatments for minors.<\/p>\n

NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin recently spoke at a City Council health budget hearing where he made public the city\u2019s desire to endorse these procedures for gender-confused youth without getting caught in the crossfire of the federal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are committed to this issue and want to make sure that we provide the services and resources for youth as well as making sure that we don\u2019t expose ourselves to clawbacks from the federal government, which disrupt the rest of the care that we can give,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n

Two major city hospital systems, NYU Langone Health and Mount Sinai Health, shuttered their youth transgender programs amid concerns over threatened federal funding. The Mamdani administration, however, seems committed to maintaining access to the controversial treatments for the city\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n

Mamdani told The Brian Lehrer show<\/em>\u00a0that the $15 million will specifically fund services for gender-dysphoric youth.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe $15 million that we have committed is funding that would unlock exactly that [\u2018gender-affirming care\u2019 for minors],\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cAnd it speaks to the fact that whether it\u2019s Reina\u2019s experience or so many others across the city, there are explicit consequences from both the cruelty that we\u2019re seeing from the federal government\u2019s policies and the decisions that are being made by private health care institutions here in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city, through the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, plans to open a \u201cgender-affirming care clinic\u201d in Corona, a neighborhood in Queens. Martin said this is \u201cone of the first times that the public health department has ever taken that step.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department has told other media outlets that it will only offer treatments to patients that are at least 19 years of age, in order to avoid running afoul of the Trump administration\u2019s mandates. However, the department did not immediately return National Review<\/span>\u2018s request for comment regarding the timeline on the opening of the clinic and if it will serve minors, in light of the mayor\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

Mamdani also previously established the city\u2019s \u201cfirst-ever office of LGBTQIA+ affairs,\u201d in the first 100 days of his administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis office focuses on the well-being of queer New Yorkers so that you know you have a champion and advocate within city government,\u201d Mamdani said at the time.<\/p>\n

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