This policy makes NYU Langone directly complicit not just in the Trump administration’s dangerous assault on trans people, but also in its attacks on all of our bodily autonomy, our healthcare system, and our human rights. In case CEO Grossman needs a reminder: executive actions do not have the authority to override the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes, and established legal precedent. Donald Trump wants to divide and weaken us by going after our marginalized and vulnerable neighbors, hoping that we’ll go along. That’s how he thinks he can gain power.

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