New York City’s Democrat Socialist Muslim mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order last week establishing a new agency within his administration – the first-ever Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs – and then appointed a transgender person to lead it.
Mamdani announced that Taylor Brown, an attorney in the Civil Rights Bureau for the New York State Attorney General, will be the office’s new director. Brown is a biological man, identifying as a woman.
The goal is to “create a central office solely focused on the well-being of queer New Yorkers so that their needs may be better met by every city agency across our administration,” Mamdani announced. He claimed that “queer New Yorkers face higher rates of homelessness and job insecurity. They often have more trouble accessing quality health care and city services. And they frequently encounter discrimination or a dearth of providers properly trained to care for them in health care settings. This office will be tasked with leading cross-agency policy design and coordination across government so that no New Yorker is forgotten or ignored.”
In a press conference on Friday, March 13, Mamdani announced, “So today we are not only founding our city’s first office for LGBTQIA+ affairs. We are also appointing our first director. This day was a long time coming. It took years of activism from community leaders who recognized how often queer New Yorkers fall through the cracks while attempting to access our city’s social services. As they organized and called for change, they drew on the legacy of the countless queer leaders who had come before.”
According to a transcript of his remarks, Mamdani further stated:
At a time when federal rollbacks and state-level bills are targeting the queer and trans community with a pointed cruelty, it is our responsibility as New Yorkers to step up and take care of our own. The person who leads that work must possess an unwavering commitment to queer New Yorkers, which is why I am so proud to announce that Taylor Brown will serve as the first director of the Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs. Taylor and her lovely family [are] here with us today. Taylor most recently served as the Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau [at] the Office of the New York State Attorney General, where she led investigations into unlawful discrimination against trans New Yorkers.
She began her legal career at Lambda Legal, worked as a staff attorney at the ACLU, and served as lead counsel on civil rights-focused federal cases, including Hersom v. Crouch, which led the state of West Virginia to require safe and accurate birth certificate amendments for trans people. She will lead this work with empathy and compassion. Also, because it is personal to her, Taylor will be the first out trans woman to lead a city office in New York City history.
According to a CBS News report, Brown is intending to go after the NYU Langone hospital, after it announced it will shut down its transgender treatment program for kids. NYU Langone had announced in February that it would no longer provide certain gender-transition treatments, such as puberty-blocking medication and hormone treatments, for patients under the age of 19.
Earlier this month, New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered NYU Langone to restart it’s transgender program for kids, or face consequences. So far, it has not reinstated the program.
TRANSGENDER FIRST: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sparking conversation after appointing the first trans woman to lead a New York City agency, its newly created ‘Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs.’
Taylor Brown is leaving her post at the State Attorney General’s office to take the reins of… pic.twitter.com/lS9rvY9kPM
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Mamdani has been widely mocked by conservatives over the new appointment.
Podcast host Benny Johnson wrote, “Mayor Zohran Mamdani has just appointed a man pretending to be a woman to now lead his newly created Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs. NYC is many billions in debt, yet Mamdani is finding new ways to waste money on wokeness. Where are the free buses?”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has just appointed a man pretending to be a woman to now lead his newly created Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs.
NYC is many billions in debt, yet Mamdani is finding new ways to waste money on wokeness.
Where are the free buses?pic.twitter.com/ZUMLx3S8bP
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 13, 2026
DMLNewsApp founder and podcast host Dennis Michael Lynch mockingly compared it to “taqiyya,” which is “an Islamic concept allowing a Muslim to conceal their faith or religious identity when under threat of danger, persecution, or violence.”
“Mayor Zohran Mamdani struggles to keep up the taqiyya while naming the first “trans woman” to lead the new LGBTQI+ Office,” DML wrote.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani struggles to keep up the taqiyya while naming the first “trans woman” to lead the new LGBTQI+ Office. pic.twitter.com/6lEZGmDSU4
— Dennis Michael Lynch (@TrustDML) March 14, 2026
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