Weill Cornell Medicine Deletes Pledge Supporting Gender-Affirming Care for Youth From Website
“The move follows an executive order from President Donald Trump directing federal entities to withhold funding from medical providers that offer gender-affirming treatments to individuals under 19 years old.”
Things are changing fast, and it’s all due to Trump’s election.
The Cornell Daily Sun reports:
Weill Cornell Medicine Removes Pledge Supporting Gender-Affirming Care for Youth From Website
Weill Cornell Medicine removed a public statement from its website on Monday that affirmed its commitment to providing gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
The move follows an executive order from President Donald Trump directing federal entities to withhold funding from medical providers that offer gender-affirming treatments to individuals under 19 years old.
On March 9, 2022, Weill Cornell Medicine issued “A pledge of support for transgender youth,” a public statement explaining that the medical institution would continue to provide “gender-affirming care to [its] transgender youth” despite “politically motivated calls to criminalize gender-affirming” healthcare. They referenced statements “targeting” transgender youths’ healthcare, such as those by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
“Rather than remaining silent in the face of divisiveness and angry rhetoric, we will strengthen our resolve to continue providing gender-affirming care to our transgender youth,” Weill Cornell Medicine wrote in their now-removed statement. “[We will] leverage the power of medical associations and institutions to fight against legislation which threatens their physical and emotional health by limiting access to medically necessary, and potentially lifesaving, care.”
Despite issuing this statement in 2022, Weill Cornell Medicine has recently joined hospitals around New York in removing public statements explaining their commitment to providing gender-affirming services to transgender youth. This change also follows New York University Langone Health’s decision to cancel transgender care appointments for minors, raising alarms about the impact of the executive order on transgender healthcare access in New York State and beyond.
Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University are both assessing the implications of the recent executive orders before issuing further guidance.
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good picture of Uris and McGraw, but I thought Weill Cornell was at 1300 York Ave in Manhattan