Grand marshals demand NYC Pride shut out hospitals that abandoned trans kids

Transgender advocates, along with past and present NYC Pride grand marshals, are demanding that Heritage of Pride bar hospital systems that have stopped providing gender-affirming care to transgender minors from participating in the city’s Pride march on June 28, including NYU Langone Health and Mount Sinai.Organized by the Gender Liberation Movement, the sign-on letter calls on the organization behind NYC Pride to prohibit any hospital system that has bowed to the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle gender-affirming care for minors. It also calls for barring any medical institution that has cooperated with the Justice Department’s attempts to obtain sensitive patient records of transgender minors.Related: NYC Pride grand marshal Peppermint says this year’s focus must include trans people’s humanity“Across the country, transgender youth and their families are facing an unprecedented assault on their rights, dignity, and access to healthcare,” the letter reads. “While many institutions have courageously defended trans youth and continued providing medically necessary care despite political pressure, several New York City hospital systems, including NYU Langone, Mt. Sinai, and New York Presbyterian, have instead chosen to preemptively end gender-affirming care for young people, capitulating to the attacks by the Trump Administration.”So far, according to GLM, prominent 2026 NYC Pride grand marshals, including Bowen Yang, Dominique Jackson, Peppermint, and Jay Walker of Gays Against Guns, have signed on to the effort. Former grand marshals, including Raquel Willis, Michelle Visage, TS Madison, Ceyenne Doroshow, and Jazz Jennings, have also signed on. In addition, 33 parents and family members of transgender children and several LGBTQ+ organizations have supported the petition. In total, 20 grand marshals, 14 LGBTQ+ non-profit and organizing collectives, and 22 LGBTQ+ leaders across the city signed on to the letter. "Each year, we are tested ag