Co-Chair of Northern Nevada DSA. Trans, Cuban, born in Venezuela. Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialist, and Bolivarian.๐จ๐บ๐ป๐ช๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐น๐ด LibSoc (LSC)
TLDR: this is a clinic meant to serve a health desert for an immigrant pop in queens. there is 15m set aside for youth care still like zohran said. it is perfectly legal to provide care rn, the EO and kennedy declaration was killed in court, and the federal rule was only proposed
The fed is gonna clawback regardless, they are murderous sociopaths and trying to triangulate is just spineless.
This is same liberal precapitulation of arguing ourselves down before we even get to the table.
I don't think this is a promising step towards delivering for LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers, and I think it's a troubling step to the right for NYC-DSA's TRBA working group to have said that
I agree with Eve. The Mamdani administration needs to stand up to Trump and make the new clinic available to trans kids as well as adults, or they will have betrayed their promises to trans socialists around the country. We cannot promote compliance with fascist federal policies
Wrestling with the reality that Zohranโs mayoralty is both the most significant achievement of US socialism in our time and is going to constantly involve decisions that make me feel used, betrayed, disposable.
All trans adults like me used to be trans kids. YDSA has trans kids
Stand with us first, that requires caring for trans kids. This is capitulation disguised as "boldness."
Caring for trans kids is not the impossible. Id rather allies actually be as such and not patronize us as them abandoning trans kids as a "victory."
We are trying to do the impossible. A pilot is a step towards building an institution for our care. We have many enemies. Iโd rather allies pursue lasting results than moral victories that would only heighten contradictions.
Stand w/ your allies in a war, b/c yes, we are at war.