Larson Blasts Trump Attack on Gender-Affirming Care for Connecticut Families

East Hartford, CT - Today, following the Trump Administration's latest move to bully hospitals out of providing care to transgender youth in Connecticut, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement.

"President Trump and Secretary Kennedy think they know better than families and doctors when it comes to the health of our children," said Larson. "While we mobilized in Congress to stop their cruel trans healthcare ban, that did not stop them from weaponizing the legal system to bully doctors and hospitals like Connecticut Children's out of providing transgender youth with the care they need. I trust families to make their own health care decisions, in consultation with their doctors-not politicians, or Donald Trump's personal lawyers, who have taken over the Department of Justice. I will always stand with the entire LGBTQ+ community and am ready to do everything I can to undo this direct attack on access to care for our state's residents."

As a member of the Congressional Equality Caucus, Rep. Larson is an original cosponsor of the Equality Act, to extend civil rights protections under federal law to LGBTQ+ Americans. He also cosponsors the Fit to Serve Act to end Trump's ban on transgender troops and filed briefs at the Supreme Court in opposition to trans healthcare bans and in support of state bans on conversion therapy.

Last year, he voted against a bill to ban trans youth from accessing medical care, as well as a bill to criminalize healthcare providers that serve transgender Americans-one of the most extreme bills to ever pass the House of Representatives. Larson is an original cosponsor of the Trans Bill of Rights and was a leading member of a coalition of Democratic lawmakers who called on Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to withdraw the Trump Administration's planned healthcare ban for trans youth-which was quietly shelved in July.