NYS provides $500K funding to Mt. Sinai, others for transgender medical care pilot program as critics cry ‘morally irresponsible’By Carl Campanile
June 20, 2023
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration is ramping up funding to healthcare facilities to boost medical staffing and care for New York’s transgender patients in a two-year pilot program — but critics slammed the gender-bending policy as “morally irresponsible.”
The state Health Department recently awarded new contracts for “The Transgender Clinical Scholars Training Pilot Program” worth $500K to Mount Sinai Hospital.
Additional funding was also provided to Community Health Care Project-Callen Lorde Health Center in Manhattan and Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, The Post has learned.
“The launch of this new pilot program reaffirms the Department’s longstanding commitment to deliver compassionate, affirmative health care to all New Yorkers,” DOH said in a statement.
Under the new program, the health care institutions will train already licensed clinicians in the medical care and well-being of those patients who are initiating or undergoing gender affirming transition and individuals who have transitioned to their self-identified gender.
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https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/nys-provides-500k-funding-to-mt-sinai-others-for-transgender-medical-care-pilot-program-as-critics-cry-morally-irresponsible/
