The NYC Health Spokesperson confirmed with Erin In The Morning that trans youth will not be offered care.

"Transgender, gender-nonconfirming, and nonbinary New Yorkers deserve age-appropriate health care that is affirming, respectful, and considerate of all their needs. That’s why, for the first time later this summer, the NYC Health Department will be expanding services to provide gender affirming hormone therapy to adults 19 years of age and older at our Corona Sexual Health Clinic. As with the other clinic services, gender-affirming hormone therapy will be offered at no to low cost and regardless of immigration status. We look forward sharing more details upon launching the pilot,” said a NYC health Spokesperson in a statement to Erin In The Morning.

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Commissioner Alister Martin: “It’s incredibly important that we get the messaging right here and that we lean in on the comms and the campaign here, but it’s also important to deliver for people and to provide the services they need. And we’re excited to say that pretty soon we’re going to be able to offer gender-affirming care directly at our clinics. We have a clinic that will be opening up in Corona which will offer gender-affirming hormone therapy for adults. It’s like one of the first times a public health department has ever taken that step, and we’re proud to not just stop there. We’ll continue moving forward with this.”

Councilmember Tiffany Cabán: “Can I ask a follow-up on that? Particularly because that’s a really big deal, but also—we’re seeing this devastating decrease in services for youth, and especially youth under 13, 12—like, there are almost no providers who provide that care. And the one or two that do is obviously under attack from the federal government. So is there going to—are you thinking about an expansion in that youth care? Because I’m talking to parents all the time and they don’t know where to take their children.”

Commissioner Martin: “As you can appreciate, the balance that we have to strike is—we are committed to this issue and want to make sure that we provide the services and resources for youth, as well as making sure that we don’t expose ourselves to clawbacks from the federal government, which disrupt the rest of the care that we can give. And so there’s much more to come on this, trying to sort of figure out that right balance. We’re eager to work with you on this, but rest assured we are working on this and we’re trying to figure out how to do this.”

  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    This is literally how most of the crimes of the Holocaust happened. Remember that whole “first they came for…” poem? Ever wonder what people who don’t speak up told themselves at night to sleep better? They said things like:

    The unfortunate reality is that not having that policy would mean 80% of their funding would go to legal defense for lawsuits from aggrieved right wing parents who have outside funding for their suits.

    They said things like, “I’m just a town clerk. Now I’ve been asked to turn over the records of the names and addresses of all the Jewish people in town. If I don’t turn them over, the fascists will come down on my head. If I have to spend all my efforts in a doomed fight against them, I won’t be able to do any good. Best just to turn over the lists of Jews and focus on battles I can win. They’re going to find those Jews one way or another.”

    The Holocaust happened through a thousand such individual compromises. And these small battles DO matter. If fascists have to spend all their efforts fighting against people overtly or covertly resting their efforts, they slow to a crawl. They only have so many resources. (In this case, Trump only has so many lawyers on staff.) Every person who refuses to fight however they can ends up directly enabling the fascists. If everyone fought, then they would get nowhere.

    The Holocaust happened in stages, one category of people being declared unhuman after another. In each stage, people could tell themselves, “yes, I could speak up and do what little I can to fight this to protect this group, but I would be letting down all these other people if I tried to protect the targeted minority.”

    Fascists count on people not fighting back, to comply in advance. And the greatest way liberal enablers coddle fascists is by telling themselves that following the whims of the fascist will still be the greater good.

    “The greater good” is the greatest tool of a fascist.