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Last week, devastating news tore through the transgender community: Fenway Health — once one of the most trusted LGBTQ+ clinics in America — announced it would end gender-affirming care for anyone under 19, bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. The rationale was both cynical and cowardly. Fenway claimed it feared that Trump could revoke federal funding on a whim and that by staying in his administration’s good graces, the clinic could protect its resources. In other words, rather than fight an unlawful threat, it chose appeasement. As Timothy Snyder warned in On Tyranny, this is how authoritarianism advances — not through direct orders, but through institutions that “preemptively obey.” By cutting off the very trans youth who helped build its reputation today, Fenway is abandoning their mission. If the line isn’t drawn here, when it’s our lives on the chopping block, who will be left to draw it when it’s theirs?
Source: https://www.advocate.com/voices/fenway- ... rans-youth