Elliot Page takes on hospitals that caved to Trump on care for trans kids: ‘Denying this care hurts children’

Actor Elliot Page is in lockstep with the Gender Liberation Movement to stand up and fight for transgender youth. On Tuesday, September 23, the award-winning actor joined crowds of trans people and accomplices rallying outside of NYU Langone Health in New York City, protesting the hospital giant’s capitulation to the Trump administration. After the Trump administration threatened to revoke federal funding from medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to minors, major New York City hospital systems such as NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and New York Presbyterian ended their gender-affirming care programs.Joining organizers and community leaders like Democratic congressional nominee Claire Valdez and legendary activist Qween Jean, Page filmed a PSA in partnership with the Gender Liberation Movement amid the chanting. Posted to Instagram on October 1, he explains in the video that the dissolution of these medical programs are part of a “coordinated assault on health care” by the Trump administration.“He’s already gutted Medicaid and 7.5 million people are projected to lose coverage,” Page says. “While these cuts have hit so many, trans youth and their families have been at the center of them.” See on Instagram The actor points out that these New York City hospital systems have served trans youth for decades. In fact, as more states have passed legislation banning gender-affirming care services for minors, many trans kids and their families have had to make the difficult decision to relocate their lives to states like New York, which boasts of having some of the most robust anti-discrimination protections for trans people in the country. “Despite state-wide protections and expressed support for this care from officials like New York Attorney General Tish James and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, these institutions caved to threats from Trump’s Department of Justice,” Page continues. “Mount Sinai even agreed to establish a detransiti