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Council Member Schulman addresses funding actions related to hospitals providing transgender healthcare
3:04:01
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Council Member Schulman discusses actions taken regarding funding for hospitals providing transgender healthcare. Key points include:
- Some private hospitals are quietly continuing to provide care to avoid federal scrutiny
- One unnamed hospital has been identified as problematic
- Council Members Schulman and Caban have withdrawn funding from the problematic hospital
This demonstrates the council's commitment to supporting transgender healthcare through both legislative and financial means.
Lynn C. Schulman
3:04:01
The other is that we did, talk to the private hospitals.
3:04:06
And, some of them are doing it just quietly so that they don't get the federal government to come down on them and stuff.
3:04:12
But there is one hospital, I'm not going to name it here, that was an issue.
3:04:16
And so I've pulled my funding from there and as has council member Caban.
3:04:22
So I just want you to know that we are doing stuff not just, financially, but legislatively as well.
3:04:27
So