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10. Lastly, Erin In The Morning is an award-winning publication, transgender led, covering LGBTQ+ issues every day. You can subscribe to support the work we are doing here at www.erininthemorning.com/subscribe.
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9. Mills added, “If the president attempts to unilaterally deprive Maine school children of the benefit of federal funding, my administration and the attorney general will take all appropriate and necessary legal action to restore that funding and the academic opportunity it provides.”
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8. In a statement, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey vowed to "defend Maine’s laws and block efforts by the president to bully and threaten us." Mills, ahead of the event, made it clear she would “not be intimidated” by Trump.
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7. This comes as other states push back against anti-trans discrimination. Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota previously sued the Trump administration over its restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, securing a temporary restraining order against the policy.
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6. Maine cemented its status as a safe state for transgender people last year by passing a law designating it as a sanctuary for those receiving gender-affirming care—despite violent threats from the far right. The state has some of the strongest protections for transgender individuals.
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5. Trump has begun to act on his promise, with the Department of Education announcing an investigation into the Maine Department of Education for permitting transgender women to compete in women’s sports—an announcement that repeatedly misgenders trans women.
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4. The event, intended as a forum for governors to discuss policy implementation with the president, followed Trump’s signing of an executive order aimed at redefining Title IX to exclude transgender people from sex-based discrimination protections—effectively enabling sports bans nationwide.
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3. The full exchange was publicly posted on Twitter by journalist Aaron Rupar:
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2. At a Friday morning event with the National Governors Association, President Trump clashed with Democratic Maine Governor Janet Mills, threatening federal funding for the state if she refused to ban trans women from sports. Mills responded with a forceful retort, vowing, “I’ll see you in court.”
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Troop8187: This troop, with trans members, is planning to visit Washington DC in 2026 to attend the National Girl Scout Convention. They are really excited to share their story with National Delegates from across the movement.
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Kai: I’m Kai, I’m an Ambassador Level Girl Scout and I’m in the 12th grade. I’m working to sell enough boxes to recieve a scholarship from my council to help pay for my college tuition. Any little bit helps- thank you! You can buy cookies from Kai here.
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Troop 93: LGBTQIA+ troop with trans members. We will not be erased! We exist & will continue to be our authentic selves. “A girl should be 2 things: who & what she wants to be.” You can buy cookies from them here.
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Rowan: Rowan (they/she) is a hardworking trans NB girl scout who is also proudly autistic and has a big goal in order to raise money to go to the Channel Islands National Park to study the Island foxes and fox conservation efforts. You can buy cookies from them here.
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Links here...
December version: web.archive.org/web/20241207...
Current version:
www.whitman-walker.org/health-servi...
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I take it back... This is unacceptable and I feel like this is CYA. Look at the old page for legal services for those experiencing discrimination vs the new page. "sexual orientation, gender identity" vs "sexual orientation" only.
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While I'm pleased that you reinstated the transgender healthcare page, this really isn't acceptable. Old page for legal services for those experiencing discrimination lists "sexual orientiation, gender identity." New page only lists "sexual orientation"
This was hamfisted and not well thought out.
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I take it back... This is unacceptable and I feel like this is CYA. Look at the old page for legal services for those experiencing discrimination vs the new page. "sexual orientation, gender identity" vs "sexual orientation" only.
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Thank you for returning the transgender page. I do hope you can place it a little more prominently, like it was before. I also hope you return gender identity to the legal services page, as someone else pointed out.
I'm disappointed the pages went down, but glad you made the right decision here.
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This looks to be correct… wow.
web.archive.org/web/20241207...
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Statement from Whitman Walker.
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There are still a couple pages that you can find with it, but most have been removed or password protected and it is off of their main page and they have confirmed why they did it.
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I work at WWH and you’re absolutely right. We need queer leadership. This was a bad call.
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10. Please read the entire thing: I lay out my case against orgs complying with erasure.
And please consider supporting my journalism. I'm an award-winning LGBTQ+ journalist covering this news every day. You can subscribe at www.erininthemorning.com/subscribe.
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9. Whitman-Walker is teaching a tyrannical Trump government exactly what it can do. If the administration were to issue an executive order barring federally funded clinics from providing gender-affirming care, it’s easy to imagine Whitman-Walker making the same argument.
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8. Timmothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, a book which has been often quoted in recent times as a guidebook for how to deal with the kind of tyrannical government we are seeing under Trump’s second term, has a lesson for Whitman-Walker, other organizations, and all of us.
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7. It blocks new patients from discovering and accessing critical resources, but worse, it legitimizes the White House’s pressure campaign against LGBTQ+ institutions. By yielding to these demands, the clinic sends a chilling message: that transgender people and our healthcare must be hidden.
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6. While Whitman-Walker may believe that scrubbing its website protects its broader services—such as HIV/AIDS care, reproductive health, dental care, and even its continued provision of transgender healthcare—their compliance with erasure inflicts real harm.
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5. The organization made it clear that they are still offering transgender healthcare but erasing transgender people from public-facing material.
Nevertheless, this is a stunning betrayal that will do more harm.
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4. In a recent interview with WAMU, Whitman-Walker’s Britt Walsh, specialty director of care, confirms that this is what was behind the erasure: “We could not take chances... That our FQHC designation would be taken away, that we wouldn’t make payroll. So we pulled things down from our website,”
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3. The decision likely stems from Trump’s EOs threatening funding for orgs that support transgender people. These guidelines have already convinced some hospitals to halt trans care and have prompted nonprofits like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and RAINN to do the same.
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2. The erasure of trans people from the clinic’s website is extensive. On January 23, “gender-affirming care” was listed prominently among its service offerings on the front page. By February 21, that listing had disappeared. Several pages are now either password-protected or removed entirely.
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Can't see us anymore I guess
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This is now confirmed:
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This is a coward’s rationale.
This is what causes people to become complicit in our own eradication.
Never.
There are some lines I will never cross. This one I will always hold firm to.