Cynthia Nixon reveals her son, her sister's kids and her friends' kids are all trans
Actress Cynthia Nixon has revealed that her son, her sister's kids and her best friend's kid are all proudly trans during a protest in New York City.Nixon joined the hundreds of demonstrators that took to the streets of Manhattan on Monday to protest NYU-Langone after the hospital cancelled at least two children's appointments to receive puberty blockers following President Trump's Trans Care executive order.The former Sex and the City star, 58, took the mic at the Pro-Trans Children protest to speak about the order and how it 'cannot happen in New York.''Most importantly, I am here today as the mother of a proud trans man,' Nixon said as the packed crowd in St. Vartan park roared.'I am here today as the aunt of a proud trans man,' she continued. 'My best friend's kid is trans and my kid's best friend is trans.''My wife and I - our lives are filled with the most amazing, beautiful, brave trans people - young and old, but especially young.'Her remarks come after NYU Langone Health, a leading hospital system in the Big Apple, began canceling appointments for minors who were scheduled to receive implants that dispense puberty-blocking medication, The New York Times reported. NYU has long been known for its trans-friendly policies as it has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for 10 consecutive years in a row, according to its website. Actress Cynthia Nixon, 58, revealed that her son, her sister's kids and her best friend's kid are all proudly trans during a protest in New York City Hundreds of demonstrators packed into St. Vartan park on Monday to protest NYU-Langone after the hospital cancelled at least two children's appointments to receive puberty blockers following President Trump's Trans Care executive order During Monday's protest, Nixon spoke about how her first-born child, Samuel, who came out as transgender in 2018, had his top surgery done at NYU 'a number of years ago'In June of 2018, Nixon saluted her first-born child, Samuel, who came out as transgender two days before the Gay Pride Parade.During Monday's protest, Nixon spoke about how Samuel had his top surgery done at NYU 'a number of years ago.' 'His doctors were fantastic,' she said during the protest. 'His surgeon was the best we could've imagined. 'And the idea that this city is filled with young people who thought they had a place to go where they can receive the highest care - and that place has now been shut to them, sickens me. Sickens me to my core.'Word quickly spread among parents of trans children after NYU canceled appointments for two 12-year-old children who had been scheduled to undergo the procedure this week.One of the children had been due to have a small device, which would release a puberty-blocking medication called Supprelin LA, implanted into the upper arm on Thursday.The father told the Times that his child's doctor blamed the inability to proceed on 'the new administration' and suggested that he try calling other hospital systems in New York or a hospital in Philadelphia that he recommended.The second 12-year-old child was scheduled to have the same procedure on Friday. The mother told the Times that she was only informed of the cancellation on Wednesday - one day after the executive order was issued. Nixon took the mic at the Pro-Trans Children protest to speak about the executive order and how it 'cannot happen in New York' Monday's packed protest comes less than a month after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning federal funding for transgender sex-changes for minors During the protest, Nixon said to a roaring crowd: 'New York is better than this, NYU should be better than this. Shame, and thank you all for being here - we must return again and again until this crime is reversed'When she questioned the hospital's reasoning, the medical team told her that they were 'awaiting more guidance.''Parents are horrified and terrified,' Clark Wolff Hamel, executive director of the nonprofit organization PFLAG, told NY1. 'Children who do not receive that care have significantly higher rates of suicide, of depression, of anxiety, of not being able to thrive in this world.' Around 3 percent of teenagers in New York State between the ages of 13 to 17 identify as transgender - the largest percentage of transgender youth in the US as its nearly twice the national average, according to The New York Times. 'I want to say that the last two weeks have been an assault, a barrage - so many horrific things coming at us from every direction, you don't even know where to look or how to try and block the horror that is coming in our direction,' Nixon said to the noisy crowd on Monday.'There are a lot of people here and we are mad as hell,' she continued. 'New York is better than this, NYU should be better than this. Shame, and thank you all for being here - we must return again and again until this crime is reversed,' she concluded before handing the mic off. The packed protest comes less than a month after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning federal funding for transgender sex-changes for minors. NYU canceled appointments for two 12-year-old children who had been scheduled to undergo a procedure in which a small device, that would release a puberty-blocking medication called Supprelin LA, would be implanted into the upper arm Around 3 percent of teenagers in New York State between the ages of 13 to 17 identify as transgender - the largest percentage of transgender youth in the US as its nearly twice the national average While speaking about NYU, the former Sex and the City star said: 'The idea that this city is filled with young people who thought they had a place to go where they can receive the highest care - and that place has now been shut to them, sickens me. Sickens me to my core'The order threatens to withhold federal dollars to health care providers if they continue providing transition treatment to patients under the age of 19.'They've escalated the attack on us, so we have to escalate standing up for each other,' Emma Lazarus, a Brooklyn resident, told NY1 during Monday's demonstration.'It's going to come to people's power on the streets.' Trump signed the executive order condemning the practice of sex transition surgeries for minors, noting that 'countless' children regretted the surgeries that 'mutilated' and trapped them into fighting 'a losing war with their own bodies.''It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so called "transition" of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,' the executive order read.New York, along with 22 additional states, filed a federal lawsuit last week to stop the government from freezing funds to healthcare providers. A judge has temporarily blocked the government from following through with the executive order.'If NYU, as a hospital, is going to rollback care for patients based on the stroke of a pen, from an illegal executive order from a president, that is an attack on every single patient in the hospital,' MJ Okma, a Manhattan resident, told NY1.The White House previously noted in a memo that four out of five children outgrew feelings of gender dysphoria, without costly and irreversible surgeries they later learned to regret. The parents of the two minors scheduled for surgery this week told The New York Times that the medical staff blamed the inability to proceed on 'the new administration' Trump signed the executive order condemning the practice of sex transition surgeries for minors, noting that 'countless' children regretted the surgeries that 'mutilated' and trapped them into fighting 'a losing war with their own bodies' New York, along with 22 additional states, filed a federal lawsuit last week to stop the government from freezing funds to healthcare providersPrior to taking office, Trump promised that on 'Day one' of his administration that he would end the 'transgender lunacy' in the federal government.'The left-wing gender insanity being pushed in our children is an act of child abuse,' Trump said in a campaign video vowing to 'revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care.'The order applies to any individual under the age of 19 and blocks any use of 'chemical and surgical' use of puberty blockers or any other efforts to remove or alter a person's physical appearance to help them identify as the opposite sex of their birth. Trump also ordered the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review and publish updated 'best practices' for children suffering from 'gender dysphoria.'
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