Happy Pride Month! 🌈
We stand in strong solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community and look forward to celebrating Pride Month with our friends, family, and neighbors. This month, and every month, we honor the trailblazing organizers who pushed forward the fight for equality and continue this work.
At a time when trans rights — and specifically gender-affirming care — are under attack by far-right legislators across the country, it's more important than ever that we protect these services and make clear what we know is true: Trans rights are human rights, and gender-affirming care is health care.
We are proud to share with you that the Medicare for All Act of 2023, introduced on May 17, was updated to explicitly include gender-affirming care in the list of comprehensive benefits that would be guaranteed as covered under a Medicare for All system.
Leading medical organizations recognize that gender-affirming care is an evidence-based form of patient care1 that leads to better health outcomes for trans people of all ages, reducing suicidality in a community particularly vulnerable to its impacts.2 Nurses know that gender-affirming care is life-saving medical care for many patients, and they will always fight for the well-being of all their patients and the broader community.
While we fight to protect these services in states across the country, we also have a vision of a future with true health care justice: a health care system in which every person — regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and more — can get the health care they need when they need it. That’s why we fight for Medicare for All.
Together, we will work to achieve full health care justice and equality for the LGBTQIA+ community.
In solidarity,
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All
P.S. Read our latest Medium post to learn more about how nurses are organizing for gender-affirming care in their communities.
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2 - https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/suicidality-transgender-adults/
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