Protestors shame Mount Sinai for bowing to Trump by dropping trans youth care

This story originally appeared on Them.NEW YORK — On Tuesday evening, over 250 protestors gathered outside of Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to condemn the hospital system for settling with the Trump administration last week, agreeing to permanently cease providing gender-affirming care to transgender people under 18.Organized by the Gender Liberation Movement and ACT UP NY, the rally included remarks from speakers including Taylor Brown, the director of New York City’s first-ever Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs; nurse and activist Qween Amor; a parent of a trans child who relocated from Florida to New York for its sanctuary state protections, which guard trans youth and their families from prosecution for seeking gender-affirming care; and Sam, a 17-year-old trans man who says he is currently receiving care at Mount Sinai.Clustered on a sidewalk outside the East 98th Street entrance to the May Center for Mount Sinai Doctors, trans youth and their supporters chanted calls such as “Our Families, Our Rights, Our Healthcare, Our Lives,” and “Support Trans Kids Humanity.” With signs in hand bearing slogans such as “Rise Up For Trans Youth,” the group garnered attention — and indeed some sympathetic support — from medical professionals funneling in and out of the facility, as Them witnessed on the scene. “Trans people exist and no executive order will change that,” Sam said during the rally.“Mount Sinai had a choice, and it chose to abandon trans children and their families rather than hold the line against federal pressure,” Raquel Willis, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement, said in a statement. “New York has some of the strongest protections for transgender people in the country; elected officials and institutions must enforce them. History will remember those that bowed to Trump’s fascism.”As our sister publication The Advocate previously reported,, Mount Sinai, one of the major hospital systems in Ne