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Tiffany Cabán explains vote on transgender rights package
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Council Member Tiffany Cabán passionately defended the transgender community and explained her support for a package of bills protecting transgender rights. She emphasized the importance of gender-affirming care and criticized attempts to restrict access to such care.
- Cabán highlighted that major medical associations support gender-affirming care at all ages
- She cited studies showing gender-affirming interventions reduce depression and suicidality
- Cabán noted that gender-affirming care has a less than 1% regret rate, compared to 20% for knee replacements
- She voted "aye" on the entire package, except for abstaining on SLR one
Tiffany Cabán
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Thank you.
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I will always support the transgender community.
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I will not back down because the Trump administration wants to set them up as scapegoats.
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I'm not gonna roll over as members of our community are villainized and demonized for who they are.
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I'm going to defend our transgender and gender nonconforming neighbors at all costs.
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And I'm not defending an ideology, I'm defending lives.
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Standing up to Trump and continuing to provide life saving health care is what would actually protect young people.
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The idea that taking away health care is to protect children is false.
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The best way to protect young people is to continue to give them access to the care that they need.
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In fact, every major medical association in America supports access to gender affirming care at all ages.
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Countless studies show that gender affirming medical interventions were associated with lower odds of depression and suicidality.
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So when the Trump administration and others say that they are trying to help children, they're lying.
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They're trying to scapegoat a small population and take away their access to life saving medical care.
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The people sounding the alarm on this are mostly brave adult parents who fear for their children's health and safety because life saving care is being taken away from them.
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And to debunk other myths, gender affirming health care has a less than one percent regret rate.
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And for context, knee replacements have an up to twenty percent regret rate.
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Families and children are having life saving care taken away, and that's horrible and traumatic.
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So I stand very proudly to say eye on that package, eye on all, except for SLR one on which I abstain.
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Thank you.