From New York to Texas, Gender-Affirming and Trans-Competent Health Care Emerges

In March, the Kind Clinic in Austin, Texas, launched a pilot program offering free and accessible gender-affirming care to the city’s transgender and gender nonconforming population.

At the time, the Kind Clinic was the first facility in Central Texas to offer a service that is often out of reach for transgender people, especially those living in one of the red states that use legislative means to deny them humanity. Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas followed suit a month later, offering gender-affirming hormone therapy at its North Austin Health Center, the second of its clinics in the state to do so.