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Council Member Tiffany Cabán introduces resolution supporting gender-affirming care
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Council Member Tiffany Cabán introduces a resolution expressing the council's support for protecting gender-affirming care. She calls on the New York State Legislature to fund and ensure accessibility of gender-affirming care in New York City, emphasizing its life-saving nature and drawing historical parallels to underscore the importance of supporting the transgender community.
- Cabán introduces the resolution alongside the LGBTQIA+ caucus and Council Member Farrah Lewis
- She draws a parallel between current attempts to ban gender-affirming care and historical persecution of the trans community in Nazi Germany
- The council member affirms unwavering support for the transgender and gender non-conforming community, vowing to defend their rights and access to healthcare
Tiffany Cabán
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Thank you very much majority leader.
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I am proud to be introducing a resolution alongside the entire LGBTQIA plus caucus and council member Farrah Lewis today expressing the council's support for protecting gender affirming care.
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Together, we are calling upon the New York State Legislature to provide the funds to ensure hospital and health care provider services, for gender affirming care remain accessible for all people in New York City.
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Gender affirming care is life saving care, and Trump's attempts to ban gender affirming care are cruel and discriminatory.
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Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
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Before 1933, Germany was at a center of LGBT plus community and culture, but Hitler's Nazi government brutally targeted the trans community.
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They claimed to protect German youth by deporting trans people to concentration camps and burning the library of the Institute for Sexual Research, which was founded by Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld.
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Here at the LGBTQIA plus caucus and in the New York City Council, we will always support the transgender community.
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We will not back down because the Trump administration wants to set them up as scapegoats.
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We will not let members of our community be villainized and demonized for who they are, and we will always defend our transgender and gender nonconforming neighbors and their right to health care.
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So thank you.