Protecting Access to Established, Research-Backed Healthcare, Including Transgender Healthcare, Is a Shared Responsibility Across Providers, Advocates, and Communities
This Pride Month, we celebrate decades of progress won through the courage and solidarity of LGBTQ+ people and those who have stood with us. Pride has always been more than a celebration. It began as an act of mutual defense — a community refusing to let its own face danger alone — and it endures as a commitment to justice, visibility, and shared responsibility.
Today, that commitment is being tested. Across the country, patients and families, providers, and community organizations are navigating a rapidly shifting landscape in which access to established, evidence-based care cannot be taken for granted. Some of what was most recently centralized and visible is becoming harder to reach. We recognize that, and we want those who depend on care, and those who deliver it, to know: the community is responding.
Care does not depend on any single institution, any single funding stream, or any single point of access. It never has. And the strength of this community has always been its ability to find one another, to build what is needed, and to make sure that no one is left without a path to the care they deserve.
That work is already underway — across provider networks, community organizations, legal advocates, and funders who are expanding capacity, deepening connections, and ensuring that pathways to care remain open, even as the landscape continues to change. The more of us who are part of that effort, the more resilient it becomes.
We invite providers, health centers, advocates, patients, families, funders, legal organizations, faith communities, and community partners to join us — to add your name, share your expertise, and direct resources toward the patients, families, and providers who need them most.
Care endures. Together, we will make sure of it
Advocates for Trans Equality
Alliance For TransYouth Rights
APLA Health
Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network
California Primary Care Association
Circle Care Center
Codman Square Health Center
Duffy Health Center
Equality California
Equitas Health
Fenway Health
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law)
Harbor Health
Health Law Advocates
HealthQ
Howard Brown Health
Human Rights Campaign
Kennedy Community Health Center
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Lyon-Martin Community Health Services
Massachusetts Medical Society
Mazzoni Center
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
Plume Clinic
Prism Health North Texas
Rockland County Pride Center
SAGE
Silver State Equality
SPEKTRUM Health
The LGBTQIA+ Cancer Network
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
TransHealth
The TransLatin@ Coalition
TransFamily Support Services
Upham’s Community Care