NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services.
This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.
This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.
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We're seeing other places pushing back and winning pauses in funding cuts through the courts. It buys time and means we don't decide one groups' lives are worth less than the ones you want to keep things open for.
And "transgender" isn't a proper noun. It's an adjective that doesn't need to be capitalized
Just something that you'll pick up whenever you decide to read about this stuff for the first time ever
You don't know enough about this, and you're wrong. You seem like a nice guy who's trying to do right.
But do NOT fucking talk down to trans people about this, you arrogant dipshit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250123183123/https://www.whitman-walker.org/health-services/behavioral-health/peer-support/
https://www.whitman-walker.org/
https://www.whitman-walker.org/faq/
But it was working previously:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250123181740/https://www.whitman-walker.org/faq/
Anyway, their contact page is still working...
https://www.whitman-walker.org/contact-us/
They didn’t even ask the mental health experts they employ how this might impact the mental health of those we serve.
Idk, maybe a psychiatrist trained in human development, complex trauma, advocacy, and social determinants of health has ideas? 🤷🏼
Crickets.
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/mysterious-ways/umc.cmc.6t02wbzl1oioctsrkit77rdax
Read the fucking room.
🙏💜
The nazi folds when called out en masse. A nazi is a naturally weak person.
Pain for users from an org taking a pro-rights stance is real, but long-term destruction by nazis in power will be worse.
I certainly wouldn't blame a group or someone for going dark to continue services or for safety.
No.
Not responding, though.
Literal gag order attached to their funding
I'm aware.
Even if not the goalposts will keep moving. How many groups of people must be sacrificed before the number excluded outweighs the benefit of staying open?
Strong, united rejection of their attempts as seen in the successful court cases buying time for alternatives to be identified, or for states to arrange funding is the way.
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/mysterious-ways/umc.cmc.6t02wbzl1oioctsrkit77rdax
(This is not an endorsement of the statements)
https://wamu.org/story/25/02/19/with-gender-affirming-care-under-threat-d-c-area-providers-worry-about-continuing-services/
There’s also this 3 months ago.
That changed pretty fast.
Cowardly, and performative. They are really demonstrating that the US is the "home of the brave."
This organisation is happy to sell out an entire demographic, so please note LGBQA+ that they will stand with you only for as long as they haggle on the price.