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Title: Massachusetts Hospitals Are Teaching Trump How Easily Trans Care Can Be Erased
Post by: Jessica_Rose on September 08, 2026, 05:54:27 AM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on September 08, 2026, 05:54:27 AM
Massachusetts Hospitals Are Teaching Trump How Easily Trans Care Can Be Erased
https://www.them.us/politics/massachusetts-transgender-care-threatened
Christopher Wiggins (1 Sep 2026)
When Teddy Walker moved from Texas to Massachusetts at 16, he began receiving gender-affirming care. Years later, Walker watched the same hospital system stop prescribing hormones and puberty blockers to transgender minors.
Walker founded Protect Trans Futures after Fenway Health ended care for patients younger than 19 in fall 2025. Fenway said continuing treatment could jeopardize federal support essential to its broader mission. Outer Cape Health Services, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, and Baystate later ended or restricted care, according to the group.
The result, Walker said, is a medical system retreating without any federal law prohibiting the treatment — or any Massachusetts provider known to have lost funding for offering it.
Protect Trans Futures has heard from patients who received unusable referrals, encountered waits lasting six to eight months, or had to restart lengthy evaluations. One 18-year-old referred from Fenway to Boston Children's Hospital was rejected because of their age, Walker said. It ultimately became easier for the patient to fly back to a Republican-led state for care.
"We have people always coming up to us at tabling events saying, 'Oh, I just came out of this doctor's appointment, and they said my care has ended,'" he said. Walker was the activist who, in August, confronted Attorney General Andrea Campbell during a heated live radio appearance, as previously reported by The Advocate. Campbell defended fighting the Trump administration rather than prosecuting hospitals she said were struggling to survive its financial threats.
Her office issued a legal advisory warning that denying medically necessary treatment may violate Massachusetts law. It also said it knew of no patients who ultimately lost access.
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@Sarah B
https://www.them.us/politics/massachusetts-transgender-care-threatened
Christopher Wiggins (1 Sep 2026)
When Teddy Walker moved from Texas to Massachusetts at 16, he began receiving gender-affirming care. Years later, Walker watched the same hospital system stop prescribing hormones and puberty blockers to transgender minors.
Walker founded Protect Trans Futures after Fenway Health ended care for patients younger than 19 in fall 2025. Fenway said continuing treatment could jeopardize federal support essential to its broader mission. Outer Cape Health Services, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, and Baystate later ended or restricted care, according to the group.
The result, Walker said, is a medical system retreating without any federal law prohibiting the treatment — or any Massachusetts provider known to have lost funding for offering it.
Protect Trans Futures has heard from patients who received unusable referrals, encountered waits lasting six to eight months, or had to restart lengthy evaluations. One 18-year-old referred from Fenway to Boston Children's Hospital was rejected because of their age, Walker said. It ultimately became easier for the patient to fly back to a Republican-led state for care.
"We have people always coming up to us at tabling events saying, 'Oh, I just came out of this doctor's appointment, and they said my care has ended,'" he said. Walker was the activist who, in August, confronted Attorney General Andrea Campbell during a heated live radio appearance, as previously reported by The Advocate. Campbell defended fighting the Trump administration rather than prosecuting hospitals she said were struggling to survive its financial threats.
Her office issued a legal advisory warning that denying medically necessary treatment may violate Massachusetts law. It also said it knew of no patients who ultimately lost access.
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@Sarah B