As Trump Administration Roll Back Transgender Protections, a Lifeline for Eastern PA Trans Community Continues

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian are part of the growing number of hospitals in Pennsylvania and New York that have stopped providing gender-affirming care to patients under 19 years old.

The interruptions to care follow President Donald Trump’s executive orders to cancel federal funding for hospitals that provide gender affirming care for trans youth and mandating that the federal government will only recognize two genders, male and female.

These actions haven’t stopped the work of the Eastern PA Trans Equity Project, a nonprofit empowering transgender people in Pennsylvania through a legal name change clinic, financial assistance, peer-led support groups, and several other mentorship and advocacy programs.

Radio Catskill’s Kimberly Izar spoke to Corinne Goodwin, board member of the Eastern PA Trans Equity Project, about what these executive orders mean for trans people in eastern Pennsylvania.

Image: Protesters gather in Allentown, P.A. for the March in Support of Trans Lives on March 28 (Photo Credit: Eastern PA Trans Equity Project)