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Tish James is still, confoundingly, fighting for youth gender care — not realizing the war is over

Letitia James seems to think we’re still living in 2021.

Last week, the New York Attorney General sent a strongly worded warning to NYU Langone Hospital, which recently axed its “transgender youth health program” after President Trump threatened to pull funding late last year.

In the letter, she demanded that hospital reinstate services within 10 days or face “further action.”

“NYU Langone appears to be suddenly and indefinitely cancelling transgender children’s future appointments thereby jeopardizing access to medically necessary healthcare for some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers,” the missive read.

James is like those Japanese soldiers who kept fighting for decades after the end of WWII, not realizing the battle was over.

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Maybe five years ago a politician’s strongly worded letter would frighten institutions into complying with a twisted mandate of messing with kids’ physical health.

But lunatic activists — who not only advocated to medicalize confused children but also zealously shut down any dissent against the practice — don’t want to admit their once almighty potency has seriously atrophied.

In 2026, we’re back to dealing with sanity. Pumping hormones or puberty blockers into minors is not “medically necessary healthcare.”

Just in the last few months, there have been many seismic changes, both culturally and in the medical profession, to support a ban.

In early February, the American Society for Plastic Surgeons came out against “gender-related breast/chest, genital and facial surgery” for anyone under 19, citing “growing uncertainty about the benefits of medical and surgical interventions.”

They added that a “substantial proportion” of kids grow out of their gender distress once they reach adulthood.

Just a day later, the American Medical Association put out their own statement: “In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”

Dr. Ira Savetsky, a plastic surgeon who trained at NYU Langone Health, wrote in The Post last month about having publicly “apologized for not speaking out during my years as a trainee, when I assisted in transgender surgeries involving youth patients.”

He also noted that the culture “created conditions in which silence felt safer than inquiry.”

In January, Fox Varian, a 22-year-old detransitioner from Westchester, won a $2 million medical malpractice lawsuit against her psychologist and surgeon — the first of its kind in the nation to go to trial and win.

At 16, Varian had been identifying as male for less than a year when, she has said, the doctors pressured her to have a double mastectomy.

Such a large jury reward has surely given some doctors and hospitals pause.

And late last year, a peer-reviewed study commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, reported that the evidence used to back practices such as hormone therapy for kids are flimsy at best.

Let’s not forget that, years earlier, many European countries pumped the brakes on giving kids puberty blockers.

The whole youth gender industrial complex is crumbling — and revealed to be built on a deck of cards.

However, here in New York, our leaders don’t seem to care.

James is still demanding hospitals perform experimental medicine on minors. Mayor Mamdani hasn’t commented on the AG’s letter, but during his campaign he promised to pump $65 million into trans healthcare, including for minors.

He also pledged to work with James to “investigate and hold public hearings on hospitals that deny trans youth their rightful healthcare and hold them accountable to the law.”

They’re buttressed by advocates like “And Just Like That” actress Cynthia Nixon, whose 29-year-old daughter now lives as a man named Samuel. Last year, Nixon spoke at a DSA rally after Trump signed an executive order promising to withhold funding from hospitals medicalizing minors.

Nixon said her child had their breasts removed at NYU “a number of years ago,” adding that other kids not having access to the same “highest care” … “sickens me to my core.”

James said this week that the hospital’s new policy violates New York’s anti-discrimination law. But her letter violates common sense and a growing medical consensus.

Maybe she’s doing this to boost her anti-Trump bona fides — and even her campaign donations from progressives — as she faces down a November election.

Note, NYU isn’t turning away kids struggling with gender issues. They are being treated how they should always have been: with a check-up from the neck up.

“We are committed to helping patients in our care manage this change. This does not impact our pediatric mental health care programs, which will continue,” the hospital said in a February statement.

Minors should be treated with therapy to understand their feelings. Not affirmed and medicalized in a way that does irreversible harm to their precious bodies.

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