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When Sutter Health told its patients in late November that it would no longer be providing gender-affirming care services for those 19 and under, their families began organizing.  The largest hospital system in Northern California didn’t announce the policy change publicly, but quietly informed those receiving the care — right around Transgender Day of Remembrance — that the treatment would stop as of December 10. While it put a damper on their Thanksgiving holidays, the families of the affected transgender youth weren’t going to take it lying down. Rainbow Families Action, a collective of families in the Bay Area who have trans children, put out a call to […]

A Sacramento man’s family and the local LGBTQ+ community are still fighting for justice six weeks after he was rendered comatose during an attack that’s been designated as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime. Alvin Prasad, 57, was leaving an LGBTQ+ club with his daughter and a friend on Halloween night when a man began shouting at them from his car. Prasad’s daughter, Andrea, told ABC10 at the time that the man insulted her father’s flamboyant costume “in a very rude, aggressive way,” and when Prasad turned around to ask why he spoke to them like that, the man allegedly punched him. The punch was directly to […]