The Safe Schools Project and The Queer Youth Task Force of Santa Cruz County are proud to host a panel titled “Why YOU Should Care About Gender Affirming Care.” This important panel event will highlight stories from local queer and transgender youth, inviting leaders and decision makers in the healthcare and education to help protect youth access to gender affirming care in Santa Cruz County. Renowned professionals will educate us on what gender affirming care is and why it is important for transgender and gender nonconforming youth to have affordable access to gender affirming care.
Even though Santa Cruz is a sanctuary county, our queer, trans, and nonbinary youth are still susceptible to being targeted by anti-LGBTQIA2S+ federal policies that could ban the gender affirming care they rely on, prevent them from accessing school facilities that match their gender identity, and make it increasingly difficult for schools to honor their names and pronouns. This event will help empower adults to stand up for youth, ensuring local policies continue to follow data-driven, medically recognized science that supports access to gender affirming care and other protections for our queer and trans youth.
Read more at QYTF.org/gender-affirming-care