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.
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.
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.
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!!!!
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🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
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.
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.
"“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.