NEW YORK CITY — NYU Langone Health received a federal grand jury subpoena from prosecutors in the Northern District of Texas on May 7 seeking information on patients under 18 who received gender-affirming care and the names of the medical providers who administered it, according to a statement. The hospital system is the first to publicly acknowledge receiving such a subpoena as part of a federal criminal investigation.

The subpoena requests records on patients under 18 who received gender-affirming care from 2020 to 2026, along with the names of the providers. NYU Langone was one of several institutions that received a subpoena from the Northern District of Texas on May 7. Earlier in 2026, NYU Langone announced it would end gender-affirming treatment for transgender children as the federal government threatened funding. The hospital system includes seven inpatient facilities and more than 300 locations in the New York City area and Florida.

In July 2025, the Justice Department sent more than 20 civil subpoenas to doctors and clinics that provide gender-affirming care to minors. Those subpoenas said they were investigating healthcare fraud, false statements, and other matters. The Department of Justice said it does not comment on grand jury investigations.

A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas ruled that Rhode Island Hospital in Providence must comply with a Justice Department subpoena seeking records on gender-affirming care provided to children. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy ordered the DOJ to provide attorneys in the Rhode Island case with the grand jury affidavit because it had become public.

According to court documents, at least seven federal courts have quashed or limited subpoenas that demanded providers hand over the birth dates, Social Security numbers, and addresses of patients who received transgender care. Court filings show eleven families filed a class-action lawsuit in Maryland's federal court seeking to block the DOJ from obtaining the subpoenaed documents. The lawsuit is backed by families with transgender children who have received care from hospitals across the U.S.

Tyler Hack, executive director of the Christopher Street Project in New York, condemned the subpoenas. "We will not allow anti-trans extremists to turn our hospitals into hunting grounds," Hack said. "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."