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From the Daily Caller: President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid has led to three transgender clinics shutting down in India as liberal causes around the world lose taxpayer funding.
Mitr Clinic, the country’s first health institution “exclusively for the transgender community,” closed three facilities on Jan. 24 after Trump cut most of its budget, Indian news outlets reported Sunday and Monday. The clinics almost fully relied on American taxpayer funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an entity the left has defended as Trump’s administration moves to dismantle it.
Former President Joe Biden’s State Department celebrated Mitr Clinic’s opening in 2021 along with the premiere of a documentary “Mitr Clinic – Pride and Beyond.” Biden’s USAID used a federal AIDS relief program to help open the clinic in partnership with Johns Hopkins University.
The press release posted by the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in India openly admitted at the time that this was being funded with U.S. tax dollars:
On November 30, the U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, organized the premier of the documentary ‘Mitr Clinic – Pride and Beyond’, which features India’s first comprehensive health clinic for the transgender community in Hyderabad. The documentary film showcases how USAID, the Government of India, civil society groups, and community leaders are working together to address the challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) persons in the country.
Speaking at the film launch, the U.S. Mission India Chargé d’Affaires Patricia A. Lacina said, “In many countries, including India, LGBTQI+ communities face pervasive discrimination and do not have access to essential services such as education, employment, and safe and stigma-free health care. As the White House report released on November 20 to memorialize the Transgender Day of Remembrance noted, the U.S. government is taking essential steps to address the root causes of anti-transgender violence, discrimination, and denial of economic opportunity. These clinics, which provide community-led comprehensive health care services to the transgender community, are a big step toward building a more inclusive society for the LGBTQI+ persons.”
In January 2021, the USAID-supported ACCELERATE program, implemented by Johns Hopkins University under PEPFAR, launched India’s first comprehensive clinic for the transgender community in Hyderabad. Known, as Mitr (translation: Hindi for “friend”) Clinics, these health facilities serve as a one-stop center providing comprehensive services for the transgender community, including general health services, guidance and medication on hormone therapy and gender affirmation procedures, mental health counseling, HIV/STI counseling, prevention and treatment services, and legal aid and social protection services in a stigma-free environment. All the staff including doctors, counsellors, and outreach workers are from the transgender community. In July 2021, two more health clinics were started in the state of Maharashtra.
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