The city won't use resources to help any state investigate a patient or provider of gender-affirming care in Philadelphia.
Mayor Kenney signed an executive order protecting gender-affirming care on Tuesday in City Hall. This file photo shows a different signing in the same location in May.investigate or punish someone for providing or receiving gender-affirming care in Philadelphia.
“We won’t help those who seek to discriminate against trans people,” Kenney said ahead of the signing in City Hall.youth who experience the psychological distress that comes when the gender and sex assigned at birth don’t match a person’s identity, known as “As this anti-trans legislation has become bolder and further reaching, our commitment to protecting trans’ and gender-expansive individuals’ access to health care also needs to become bolder,” Morrison said., executive director of the Mazzoni Center, the city’s largest LGBTQ health and wellness agency, during the signing ceremony. The patients who come to Mazzoni want to be treated in a way that allows them to live their true authentic lives, he noted.
“Today’s executive order also sends a message that we respect and value our medical providers here in Philadelphia,” Shakir said. Other Democratic-led cities and states have adopted similar protections for trans people seeking care. In June, New York City’sThe city’s support for gender-affirming care follows other city efforts to protect health care providers and patients from restrictive health laws enacted in other states. Last winter,
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