Trans people and people of color have been quietly erased from national caregiving planhttps://www.advocate.com/health/trans-people-national-caregiving-erased 🔗Sara Luterman (21 Nov 2025)
Three years after the release of the first comprehensive roadmap to address difficulties faced by family caregivers of older adults and people with disabilities, the Trump administration has quietly erased transgender caregivers and caregivers of color from a list of underserved or hard-to-reach populations, The 19th has exclusively learned.
Dozens of changes were quietly made this year to the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, which was first released in 2022 after years of work by government officials and community stakeholders. An objective to "prioritize efforts to advance equity for unserved and underserved populations of caregivers" was removed entirely, as was a section noting that the challenges of family caregiving are not equally distributed.
These changes distort reality, according to Jason Resendez, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Family Caregiving. The alliance represents the interests of family caregivers, or about 59 million Americans. A recent report from the alliance and the AARP showed that not all family caregivers face the same amount or intensity of challenge.
"[Our research] shows that family caregivers span the full spectrum... Yet people of color, women and LGBTQ Americans experience greater negative impacts from caregiving, from financial hardships to worse health outcomes," Resendez told The 19th in a statement. He also condemned the changes to the report. "Weakening the equity provisions in the National Strategy to Support Family Caregiving ignores this stark reality," he said.
