Fenway Health has joined more than 35 organizations — from national groups like GLAD Law, HRC and Planned Parenthood to local community health centers, providers and advocates — in issuing a unified statement reaffirming their commitment to protecting access to established, research-backed care.
The statement makes clear that protecting access to care is not the responsibility of any single provider or institution. It will require coordinated action across providers, advocates, legal organizations, funders and communities to keep pathways to care open for patients and families:
Protecting Access to Established, Research-Backed Healthcare, Including Transgender Healthcare, Is a Shared Responsibility Across Providers, Advocates, and Communities
This Pride Month, we celebrate decades of progress won through the courage and solidarity of LGBTQ+ people and those who have stood with us. Pride has always been more than a celebration. It began as an act of mutual defense — a community refusing to let its own face danger alone — and it endures as a commitment to justice, visibility, and shared responsibility.
Today, that commitment is being tested. Across the country, patients and families, providers, and community organizations are navigating a rapidly shifting landscape in which access to established, evidence-based care cannot be taken for granted. Some of what was most recently centralized and visible is becoming harder to reach. We recognize that, and we want those who depend on care, and those who deliver it, to know: the community is responding.
Care does not depend on any single institution, any single funding stream, or any single point of access. It never has. And the strength of this community has always been its ability to find one another, to build what is needed, and to make sure that no one is left without a path to the care they deserve.
That work is already underway — across provider networks, community organizations, legal advocates, and funders who are expanding capacity, deepening connections, and ensuring that pathways to care remain open, even as the landscape continues to change. The more of us who are part of that effort, the more resilient it becomes.
We invite providers, health centers, advocates, patients, families, funders, legal organizations, faith communities, and community partners to join us — to add your name, share your expertise, and direct resources toward the patients, families, and providers who need them most.
Care endures. Together, we will make sure of it.
Signed by:
- Advocates for Trans Equality
- Alliance For TransYouth Rights
- APLA Health
- Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
- California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network
- California Primary Care Association
- Circle Care Center
- Codman Square Health Center
- Duffy Health Center
- Equality California
- Equitas Health
- Fenway Health
- GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law)
- Harbor Health
- Health Law Advocates
- HealthQ
- Howard Brown Health
- Human Rights Campaign
- Kennedy Community Health Center
- Los Angeles LGBT Center
- Lyon-Martin Community Health Services
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Mazzoni Center
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
- Plume Clinic
- Prism Health North Texas
- Rockland County Pride Center
- SAGE
- Silver State Equality
- SPEKTRUM Health
- The LGBTQIA+ Cancer Network
- The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
- TransHealth
- The TransLatin@ Coalition
- TransFamily Support Services
- Upham’s Community Care
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