FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News from Progress Michigan
August 27, 2025
Contact: Denzel McCampbell, denzel@progressmichigan.org
Michigan Medicine Caves to Trump, Lets Down Patients
Decision to cut gender affirming care is cowardice in action
MICHIGAN – Following the announcement that Michigan Medicine will be discontinuing transgender health care for patients under 19 at all their health care facilities, Progress Michigan criticized the decision and emphasized the need to stand firm against fascism. The following quote can be attributed to Sam Inglot, executive director of Progress Michigan:
“Patients across the state, trans youth included, rely on health care providers in the Michigan Medicine network. Serving those patients should always be the priority—but instead, management has caved to threats from the Trump administration and opted to stop offering safe, effective treatments that their patients need. This is another devastating blow to young trans folks who are already facing numerous attacks on their rights, their safety, and their ability to live authentically.
“Ceding ground in the hope of being spared from future attacks has never been an effective way to fight fascism, and this case is no different. The Trump administration will not stop at eliminating transgender health care for young trans people—in fact, we have every reason to believe they will continue chipping away at not only gender affirming care, but reproductive health care, vaccines, and any number of other procedures or kinds of care that people rely on. The way we prevent that slow creep is by fighting back constantly and consistently and ensuring that not a single inch they gain toward achieving their backward, dystopian agenda comes easily. They are coming for health care today and they will be coming after even more in the days ahead.
“While it is clear that this is a wrong and harmful decision, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has also indicated that it is a potentially illegal decision that runs afoul of the state’s civil rights laws. This is not the time for our public institutions to abandon the communities and people that need them most. Michigan Medicine must reconsider their decision.”
The latest Lake Effect poll showed a strong majority of Michiganders overall believe that decisions about transgender medical care should be made between the person, their parents, and a healthcare professional.
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