Last week, Tr*mp signed an executive order that would ban access to gender-affirming care for young adults under the age of 19. While it’s a sweeping order, it’s still up to certain hospitals to play by the rules. Similar to the order declaring that teachers have to misgender their students in the classroom, it depends on individual actors standing up to this kind of persecution to nullify it.
But while we’re hearing reports of teachers organizing in their refusal to cooperate, certain hospitals are wasting no time in complying with the anti-trans executive order that’s telling them to stop caring for trans minors.
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According to Erin in the Morning, the University of Colorado Health, Denver Health, New York University Langone, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia have all stated their plans to comply with the order, leaving trans teens and young adults without access to life-saving HRT and other gender-affirming care.
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As reported by the Erin the Morning team, most hospitals that are pushing back against the executive order are doing so from within blue states with sanctuary laws. However, the compliance of a health center like NYU Langone is confusing, since it’s located in New York City proper—though allegedly the care ban will only apply to new patients.
“This is a textbook case of institutions surrendering before a fight even begins, bowing to political pressure despite the lack of any immediate enforcement mechanism,” Mira Lazine writes for EITM. “Yet, these same hospitals continue to brand themselves as champions of gender-affirming care—New York University, for example, still advertises adolescent services on its website without mentioning its new restrictions for incoming patients.”
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