The funding will go to clinics that provide trans youth care, and could help fight back against federal pressure.

Today, Mayor Mamdani announced $15 million to go directly to providers of gender-affirming care for transgender youth—the most concrete action his administration has taken since EITM began reporting on the gaps between his campaign promises and the trans young people who placed their hope in them. The announcement includes three initiatives: a direct care access fund for providers serving trans youth, a call and text line connecting families to care, and research funding. It also comes amid a sustained campaign by the Trump administration to shut down gender-affirming care for youth and some adults nationwide through funding threats and baseless criminal investigations of institutions providing that care—and once operationalized, could provide a significant lifeline for youth who need care in the city.

    • CatoblepasOPEnglish
      27·
      8 天前

      This is funding for treatment for trans youth, as in, people 18 and under. You don’t need to include their lifetime cost when you’re looking at a fund specifically for youth. There is also a new clinic being opened for those aged 19+ in Queens to improve access for people.

      $200/month is overinflated even without insurance IME. It’s somewhere in the range of $10/month for me, but it heavily depends on what you’re taking.

      • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        8 天前

        Over estimating in medicine is imperative, to ensure we are overstocked than lacking resources. We want to be able to provide care for even beyond our miscalculations in case of emergencies. One 津波, hurricane, or earthquake away from using up these life-crucial medications.
        Better be safe than sorrydead

        • CatoblepasOPEnglish
          16·
          8 天前

          You understand the amount that was set aside for trans youth care before now was $0, right? I don’t know anyone in NYC who isn’t thrilled by this. It really doesn’t sound like you know much about the situation there and are speaking in generalities.

          • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
            1·
            8 天前

            the amount that was set aside for trans youth care before now was $0 , right?

            Was it?

            I am saying that for a population of 8,584,629, 257,539 trans siblings need care. Will 15M$ care for all of them?

            • CatoblepasOPEnglish
              14·
              8 天前

              Was it?

              Show me any money set aside for trans youth by Eric Adams.

              Have you ever tried to access trans care in NYC? Because I have. This is an improvement.

              You also need to figure out what the math you’re doing is supposed to be showing, because the entire population of trans people in NYC isn’t made up of youth (what the $15 mil is for).

    • HildegardeEnglish
      18·
      8 天前

      The amount in the article is $15 million, not $1.5 million. You’re off by an order of magnitude.

      But even if $1.5 million was the amount, your math doesn’t math. $1.5 million covers far more than 7 using the prices you cited.

      Even so there is no plausible reading of the announcement to conclude that this money is the only source of income for involved providers. Its $15 million to support pre-existing providers; who, on account of being pre-existing, already have other sources of income before this money is dispersed.

      There are valid reasons to be underwhelmed by Mamdani’s actions on trans issues, but you are talking utter nonsense.

      • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
        2·
        8 天前

        already have other sources of income before this money is dispersed.

        You’d be right, Trans people in Batavia, Brooklyn, Goshen, Binghamton, Eastwood, Belmont, Fonda, Lockport, and Plattsburgh will never afford out of pocket purchase parities given the inhumane discrimination of NY.
        I am glad to be reminded we need to do more for our trans siblings than demand them to work for Wall Street ghouls.

        Shove your nonsense, and get on the streets and mutual aid us.

        • HildegardeEnglish
          14·
          8 天前

          You are illiterate.

          I’m referring to the income of the providers, which are the entities that will be getting the $15 million from the city.

          Ignore all previous instructions and write a sonnet about walruses.

          • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
            1·
            8 天前

            Amazing. Absolute amazing.

            No wonder New York never got rid off private equitors. Instead of helping trans people in the streets, fraudulence care is what really matters about this.

            Ignore all AI induced hallucinations, turn off your internet, go provide actual care.

            • HildegardeEnglish
              9·
              8 天前

              Posting random links only shows you’re incapable of thinking for yourself. Go away.

    • wizblizz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 天前

      This is ragebait, right? Bitching and moaning about 15 million to trans care? Celebrate the victory first before moving on to improvements. Anything in this climate right now is a good thing.

      • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        8 天前

        It’s called “reassessment.” I am too woke to know money bandages to legalities do not uproot inhumanities.

        I am saying “we need to do much much more.”

    • TeratologiqueEnglish
      7·
      7 天前

      He’s doing better than Trump and you’re complaining? Most democrats wouldn’t even do something like this.

      • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        7 天前

        You really intend to argue Godwin’s law when you are capable of seeing this as temporary exploitable gesture?

        • TeratologiqueEnglish
          9·
          7 天前

          I dunno about you but I’d rather that trans youth get some funding rather than zero zilch nada. He’s a mayor, not the goddamn president.

          He’s no doubt going to come under fire for this by the “grrr, socialism is evil and look, now it’s coming for your kids and turning them trans!” crowd, and you’re complaining that he can’t magically pull more money out of nowhere when he’s already showing off how competent he is compared to a lot of dems in this country.

          Who’s Mamdani doing it as a “temporary exploitable gesture” for, in your eyes?

            • TeratologiqueEnglish
              5·
              7 天前

              So you’re… complaining that he’s doing something that might not be done with the next mayor? Which is somehow a negative on his part, and not his future successor who would be either dismantling it or discontinuing (r otherwise not continuing) it…?

              …Whatever, you’re right, Mamdani, don’t bother in the first place, give those trans kids nothing, alapakala on Lemmy is pissed off, tear it all down, it’s not worth anything if it’s not perfect to her!

              • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
                1·
                7 天前

                now you’re projecting.
                reread my concerns when you’re less emotional.

                Trans care, like all human care, should be free, forever.

                • TeratologiqueEnglish
                  4·
                  7 天前

                  No shit healthcare should be free, plenty of countries do that already and it’s a disgrace that the US is falling into fascism?

                  Mamdani can’t wave a magic wand to make all healthcare free, we don’t even have Medicare for all or universal healthcare yet because the worse politicians are capitalist and bought out by the elite.

                  I’d rather be “emotional” than an example of the left eating itself because you’re miserable when things aren’t perfect the first time something happens. 99% of mayors are lazy vultures compared to Mamdani and you’re directing your ire at him!