SENATOR ANWAR RELEASES STATEMENT AFTER CONNECTICUT CHILDREN’S, YALE NEW HAVEN HEALTH END GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH

Today, State Senator Saud Anwar (D-South Windsor), Senate Chair of the Public Health Committee, released the following statement in response to recent media reports that Connecticut Children’s and Yale New Haven Health will end gender-affirming care programs for youth in response to escalating pressure from the federal government:

“As a physician, my foremost concern is for a patient’s well-being. Studies repeatedly show that access to gender-affirming care delivers significant mental health improvements for transgender teens and youth, as well as improvements to their overall health and their quality of life. Therefore, I find it extremely disturbing to see the federal government mandate that this care will be ripped from the patients needing and benefitting from it most. This is just another attack on the LGBTQ+ community from an administration that has made its disdain for them clear, which makes our continued need to support them all the more important.”