Cornell Health Changes Gender-Affirming Care Page After Trump Executive Order
“It is sickening. There is no compromise between transphobia and supporting transgender students.”
‘Gender affirming care’ is one of those Orwellian terms that makes everything sound much softer. It’s classic left speak.
The Cornell Daily Sun reports:
Cornell Health Adjusts Gender-Affirming Care Page Following Trump Executive Order
Cornell Health has deleted several lines from its gender-affirming care page. 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.
Cornell Health’s gender-affirming care page previously noted that “New York State has legislation in place to protect access to gender-affirming care” and that they “do not anticipate any future changes to the services [they] provide,” as of Jan. 9.
Cornell Health added that “students enrolled in Cornell’s Student Health Plan and other New York-based employer and exchange insurance plans in 2025 will continue to have coverage for gender-affirming care.”
However, after Trump issued his executive order on Jan. 28 instructing federal agencies to deny funding to medical providers that administer gender-affirming treatments to individuals under the age of 19, Cornell Health removed these statements from its website.
At time of publication, the page now states that “Cornell Health remains committed to providing gender-affirming services for students at this time; and [they] are monitoring rapidly changing legal developments in this area which could affect individuals under 19.”
Some members of Cornell’s transgender community said they are dissatisfied with the adjustment in Cornell Health’s messaging. According to Hugo Keil ’27, “It is sickening. There is no compromise between transphobia and supporting transgender students. You can’t find a happy medium between a band of frothing, rabid fascists and an individual who merely wishes to maintain their rights as ensured by New York State.”
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