Emily Witt

That could be that they're stuck between a rock and a hard place.

A hospital like NYU Langone receives government grants for research. They receive probably more than a billion dollars a year in Medicaid reimbursements. They have Trump on the one side saying that he'll withdraw federal funding for their hospitals if they continue certain forms of treatment, and then the state saying that they'll sue.

There was a real sense of panic among the parents that, you know, even though it's not law yet, that the hospitals were preemptively canceling care. And that was scary because New York is one of several states that passed safe haven laws for trans patients and especially trans minors that were, you know, laws that were supposed to protect care for them in the state.

As soon as the child made that adjustment, she became very well adjusted, was thriving at school.

This is a child that lives as a girl. Her friends don't even necessarily know that she's trans. And so for the parents, it's really scary because it would be a very violent adjustment. And it's scary also thinking about the future of this child and what her life might look like.

and the discrimination she might face and the difficulties in getting the care that she's been used to getting for all these years.

Suddenly the thought of it all going away is just very scary for people. They were on the phone with me. They were, in some instances, breaking into tears. The parents were telling me they were up at night, unable to sleep. They're just very worried right now.