Shame on NYC hospitals for caving, as have most surgeons around the US. When our Bay Area hospital system capitulated to Trump despite my protests, we found an alternative. Denying surgery to 18 year olds is--as Trump intended--cruelty.
Organizations that refuse to provide services to the transgender community should not be allowed to participate in Pride parades or events that celebrate or claim to support the transgender community. Pride is about genuine solidarity, not symbolic participation. If an organization turns its back on transgender people when support is needed most, it should not benefit from the visibility and credibility that Pride provides.
It is equally important if not more important to hold Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul accountable for their commitments to the transgender community. In my view, both have said what was politically convenient to secure votes but have failed to follow through with meaningful action. The transgender community deserves leaders who keep their promises, protect access to services and healthcare, and stand up for transgender rights when it matters—not just during campaign season or at Pride events.
The BS excuse given by NYC Pride for not kicking the institutions out. https://nycpride.org/press-release/nyc-pride-on-involvement-of-healthcare-systems-in-2026-march/ Yes, there are great allies and LGBTQ+ employees at NYU Langone, Mt. Sinai, etc. I heard from a trans youth this week about how great his doctor at NYC Langone was after NYU terminated his care. His physician worked tirelessly to secure a continuation of care elsewhere, and the doctor was, the young man said, very torn up emotionally about the situation. But that doctor, and all other employees of those institutions are free to march by themselves, or collectively under any other banner that they desire. And it is reasonable to expect that many will in solidarity with our community and protest of their employers. But for NYC Pride not to eject the institutions is an intolerable betrayal of our community. I'm waiting to hear when, where, and who is organizing a protest at the Pride Parade. That NYC Pride needs the money from these groups is no secret (given all the corporate sponsors that don't want to be seen standing with us now.) But that is not an excuse, it is an indictment of their leadership. In short, I am so f*!king pissed.
Another headline from today, “NYC Pride defends allowing hospitals in march after calls for ban over trans youth care”. In a horrible few years of headlines, it’s this one that has left my heart more than a little broken. I’m not a New Yorker, but a Pride org supporting hospitals that banned care is the cruelest kind of betrayal and it came from our community??? Please tell me I’m missing something or not understanding. Do we trans people mean this little to the broader LGB community? Please let me be wrong.
Well, the NYC gay liberation folks kicked us out of our own movement a few years after Stonewall - apparently because we embarrassed them (the Mattachine "them"). So, we shall see whether this is "The Big Boot 2.0."
Even if these hospitals march, I would like to think the LGBTQ people of NYC support us and will boo the hospitals.
The nerve! It's like Seth Moulton marching in his district's Pride Parade (where he was properly boo'ed). (For that matter, it's a bit like Moulton's co-sponsoring Jayapal's Transgender Bill of Rights, absent some sort of apology or public correction of position.) Words are cheap.
I'm wondering whether Mamdani is going to want to march in Pride and what the organizers' position on that is.
Let the Executive Board of NYC Pride/Heritage of Pride know what you think of their decision not to exclude the institutions of NYU Langone, etc., from the NYC Pride March.
Shame on NYC hospitals for caving, as have most surgeons around the US. When our Bay Area hospital system capitulated to Trump despite my protests, we found an alternative. Denying surgery to 18 year olds is--as Trump intended--cruelty.
and the Heritage F-word, and FedSoc, etc.
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So proud of NYC PRIDE organizers for kicking out sponsors that turned their backs on us!!! That is the truest spirit of PRIDE!!! Happy PRIDE!!!!
"“You can't march in a Pride parade while you are damaging the lives of members of our community.”
That seems clear and obvious enough it should not have needed to be said.
Thank you Baum.
Organizations that refuse to provide services to the transgender community should not be allowed to participate in Pride parades or events that celebrate or claim to support the transgender community. Pride is about genuine solidarity, not symbolic participation. If an organization turns its back on transgender people when support is needed most, it should not benefit from the visibility and credibility that Pride provides.
It is equally important if not more important to hold Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul accountable for their commitments to the transgender community. In my view, both have said what was politically convenient to secure votes but have failed to follow through with meaningful action. The transgender community deserves leaders who keep their promises, protect access to services and healthcare, and stand up for transgender rights when it matters—not just during campaign season or at Pride events.
Do the right thing NYC hospitals! Provide the necessary care for your patients🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
The BS excuse given by NYC Pride for not kicking the institutions out. https://nycpride.org/press-release/nyc-pride-on-involvement-of-healthcare-systems-in-2026-march/ Yes, there are great allies and LGBTQ+ employees at NYU Langone, Mt. Sinai, etc. I heard from a trans youth this week about how great his doctor at NYC Langone was after NYU terminated his care. His physician worked tirelessly to secure a continuation of care elsewhere, and the doctor was, the young man said, very torn up emotionally about the situation. But that doctor, and all other employees of those institutions are free to march by themselves, or collectively under any other banner that they desire. And it is reasonable to expect that many will in solidarity with our community and protest of their employers. But for NYC Pride not to eject the institutions is an intolerable betrayal of our community. I'm waiting to hear when, where, and who is organizing a protest at the Pride Parade. That NYC Pride needs the money from these groups is no secret (given all the corporate sponsors that don't want to be seen standing with us now.) But that is not an excuse, it is an indictment of their leadership. In short, I am so f*!king pissed.
They should have been boo'd right out of it.
Another headline from today, “NYC Pride defends allowing hospitals in march after calls for ban over trans youth care”. In a horrible few years of headlines, it’s this one that has left my heart more than a little broken. I’m not a New Yorker, but a Pride org supporting hospitals that banned care is the cruelest kind of betrayal and it came from our community??? Please tell me I’m missing something or not understanding. Do we trans people mean this little to the broader LGB community? Please let me be wrong.
Well, the NYC gay liberation folks kicked us out of our own movement a few years after Stonewall - apparently because we embarrassed them (the Mattachine "them"). So, we shall see whether this is "The Big Boot 2.0."
Even if these hospitals march, I would like to think the LGBTQ people of NYC support us and will boo the hospitals.
Time for me to write letters to the hospital. My letters may not do much good but at the minimum it makes me feel less helpless.
The nerve! It's like Seth Moulton marching in his district's Pride Parade (where he was properly boo'ed). (For that matter, it's a bit like Moulton's co-sponsoring Jayapal's Transgender Bill of Rights, absent some sort of apology or public correction of position.) Words are cheap.
I'm wondering whether Mamdani is going to want to march in Pride and what the organizers' position on that is.
Let the Executive Board of NYC Pride/Heritage of Pride know what you think of their decision not to exclude the institutions of NYU Langone, etc., from the NYC Pride March.
Im Lynde - Executive Director
https://www.linkedin.com/in/im-lynde/
Kazz Alexander
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kazz-alexander-pinkard/
Michele Irimia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-irimia-a1632b66/
Chris Piedmont
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cpiedmo/
Afiya Clarke
https://www.linkedin.com/in/afiyanclarke/
They should not be in the parade then. No haters in Pride!
Thanks, S. Baum, for this report.