Mount Sinai subpoenaed over records on youth gender-affirming care

Mount Sinai said a grand jury had subpoenaed the health system for information about adolescent patients who received gender-related care, deepening a federal campaign that has already pulled hospitals and pediatric specialists into a widening legal fight. The move follows the Justice Department’s July 9, 2025 announcement that it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in transgender medical procedures on children, a sign that the administration’s pressure is not limited to one institution.

The subpoena lands in a city where gender-affirming care has already become a legal flashpoint. NYU Langone confirmed in May 2026 that it received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas seeking records for patients under 18 who received gender-transition care between 2020 and 2026, along with information about the providers involved. Mount Sinai’s own programs, including the pediatric and adolescent team at the Keith Haring Youth Gender Center and the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, have publicly described themselves as serving transgender and gender-diverse patients of all ages, with confidential care for young people at no cost.

The pressure is being felt by families already navigating a fraught and highly personal form of medicine. Two parents of trans children told Gothamist on June 4 that Mount Sinai called them and said their children’s health information would be shared with the federal government. One of them, Dawn Gabriel, said she was blindsided because her family was no longer receiving care there, and said the hospital told her the records would be anonymized. Mount Sinai spokesperson Lucia L. Lee later said the hospital had been subpoenaed, that New York’s Shield law requires patient notification when records are sought, and that if records are ultimately produced the current plan is to provide only de-identified information with identifying details removed.

The legal fight has spread beyond hospital compliance offices and into New York’s political and civil rights landscape. On June 5, the New York City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus condemned the move as deeply alarming and said it reflected a coordinated federal effort to intimidate transgender youth, their families and the health care providers who treat them. Families have also gone to court: on June 1, transgender youth and their families filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the attorney general and the Justice Department over efforts to obtain private health records from NYU Langone and other city hospitals, arguing that disclosure would violate privacy rights and expose families to harm.