NYC Comptroller Brad Lander backs sex-change operations for minors, opposes Trump trans ban

City Comptroller Brad Lander lamented an underage kid’s access to puberty blockers in a tirade against President Trump’s executive order banning federal funding for sex-change surgeries and other treatments.

“I literally this morning was talking to a mom whose kid has puberty blockers prescribed by a doc at NYU Langone,” Lander, a candidate for mayor, said during an interview with LGBT activist Marti Cummings. “She had to explain to him why his doctor is not going to continue to see him any more.”

Lander said he backed a legal opinion from state Attorney General Letitia James’ that said denying “gender affirming care” violates the state’s human rights law.

Read ore in the New York Post.