Pediatrician Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum told his trans youth patients

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"I will go to jail to defend your care. Your care is not stopping. This is a safe space where you access your care, and it’s going to remain that way."


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AMY GOODMAN: I want to bring Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum into this conversation, a pediatrician, adolescent medicine specialist who works with transgender youth. Can you talk about what’s happening in these hospitals? I’ve heard stories of one person after another, as Chase just said, about to go in for surgery, having all the medical preparation, and then being told it’s canceled. You say you’re willing to go to jail to continue to provide medical care for your patients?

DR. JEFFREY BIRNBAUM: Yes. You know, since I was quoted as saying that in the paper the other day — and I stand by my words — I’ve learned that there’s more risk that comes to hospitals, at this point in time at least, than providers, in terms of having their funding cut off and having their grants and so on turned off and just having the flow of money into their institutions turned off, more so than providers. But I stand by — I stand by my words.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/5/trans_healthcare_doctor

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Here's the video:

"I Will Go to Jail to Defend Your Care": New York Doctor Vows to Keep Helping Trans Youth Patients
Democracy Now!
Feb 5, 2025

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2. Thank you.