The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision instructing Children’s Hospital to resume serving the transgender community sends a clear and necessary message: hospitals, clinics, and medical institutions cannot abandon vulnerable patients because of political pressure or manufactured outrage.
The court made clear it did not agree that Children’s Hospital had fairly treated transgender patients and found that transgender patients were in fact discriminated against when these services were cut off.
That is a powerful statement from the court and a warning to every healthcare institution in Colorado.
Gender-affirming care is recognized medical care supported by major medical organizations, and denying access puts lives and mental health at risk.
This ruling makes it clear that healthcare providers in Colorado must uphold their obligations to patients, not extremist politics.
Every hospital and clinic in Colorado should take notice and immediately restore these services without delay. The transgender community deserves dignity, evidence-based healthcare, and equal treatment under the law.
It also sends a message to other states that JFK Jr nor Trump can force these institutions to abandon this community.
This is good news. While I live in Oregon, I love traveling to Denver for the pride parade. It's the best that I've ever been to. So glad to hear this news about Colorado.
I feel so lucky to be living in Colorado. We may have our problems, but we seem to be much more accepting and humanitarian than most of our neighboring states.
Chris Armitage (The Essentialist Republic) has been writing a lot about different legal frameworks blue states can -and in some cases 'are'- using to counter unconstitutional federal actions. With this and also the recent win against turning over trans youth patient records, I wonder if Essentialist Republic may be interested in highlighting what these wins could portend, and how they can be scaled up?
The most important sentence in the whole thing: "Because the Kennedy Declaration isn’t federal law.”
YES! And it's damn well about time everybody - and I mean anybody and everybody - stopped acting as if any of that mass of heinous Executive Orders is anything other than what it is: the vapid ramblings spewed by biased fanatics dreaming of what they wish the law would be, not what it is.
This is fantastic. I'm so grateful that CO will (hopefully!) remain a safe haven for trans minors.
The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision instructing Children’s Hospital to resume serving the transgender community sends a clear and necessary message: hospitals, clinics, and medical institutions cannot abandon vulnerable patients because of political pressure or manufactured outrage.
The court made clear it did not agree that Children’s Hospital had fairly treated transgender patients and found that transgender patients were in fact discriminated against when these services were cut off.
That is a powerful statement from the court and a warning to every healthcare institution in Colorado.
Gender-affirming care is recognized medical care supported by major medical organizations, and denying access puts lives and mental health at risk.
This ruling makes it clear that healthcare providers in Colorado must uphold their obligations to patients, not extremist politics.
Every hospital and clinic in Colorado should take notice and immediately restore these services without delay. The transgender community deserves dignity, evidence-based healthcare, and equal treatment under the law.
It also sends a message to other states that JFK Jr nor Trump can force these institutions to abandon this community.
"Were it otherwise, minority groups would always lose. But that is not the law. On the contrary, that’s precisely why we have protected classes."
Eloquently put. I'm glad that somebody has their head on straight in all of this mess.
Great!
Great news, thank you.
This is good news. While I live in Oregon, I love traveling to Denver for the pride parade. It's the best that I've ever been to. So glad to hear this news about Colorado.
Thank you Erin.
It is difficult to get too much good news any day, let alone lately.
CONFUSION TO THE ENEMY!
Congratulations and huge thank you to the brave caregivers and their lawyers who convinced the court to defend the rights of trans-Coloradins.
Thanks for this report, Erin.
I feel so lucky to be living in Colorado. We may have our problems, but we seem to be much more accepting and humanitarian than most of our neighboring states.
Good news!
Chris Armitage (The Essentialist Republic) has been writing a lot about different legal frameworks blue states can -and in some cases 'are'- using to counter unconstitutional federal actions. With this and also the recent win against turning over trans youth patient records, I wonder if Essentialist Republic may be interested in highlighting what these wins could portend, and how they can be scaled up?
The most important sentence in the whole thing: "Because the Kennedy Declaration isn’t federal law.”
YES! And it's damn well about time everybody - and I mean anybody and everybody - stopped acting as if any of that mass of heinous Executive Orders is anything other than what it is: the vapid ramblings spewed by biased fanatics dreaming of what they wish the law would be, not what it is.
Excellent!!!
Halleluja for common sense and following the actual law! Thanks be to Erin and Co. for keeping us updated.
Excellent news but can it be overturned by the Supreme Court?