We call on UNMH to provide Gender-Affirming surgical care in our refuge State

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New Mexico Legislature, UNMH

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  1. Zahájená 16.6.2025
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Petícia je adresovaná: New Mexico Legislature, UNMH

As community members, representatives, educators, organizations, and health care providers, we demand that UNMH teach and provide gender-affirming care in our state. 

We call on UNMH to recruit students and train residents to ensure everyone, regardless of income, receives the care they deserve. 

We call on our state legislators to earmark funds to UNMH specifically for gender-affirming care, so that we can access the care our state has fought to protect.

Recently, UNMH has stopped providing gender-affirming surgeries in Surgical Specialties. This is unacceptable. We live in a state that prioritizes and protects gender-affirming care. House Bill 7, the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Act, prohibits public bodies, such as public hospitals, from “denying, restricting, or discriminating against an individual’s right to use or refuse reproductive health care or health care related to gender.” So why are gender-expansive folks not receiving the healthcare we deserve? Why is UNMH Surgical Specialties suddenly unwilling to offer this care for a specific population?  

NM is a proud refuge state; people come here from all over the country to receive the care that our legislature has protected by law. Our state supports UNMH financially to ensure this care is accessible. Nonetheless, with Dr. Kuhn, who previously provided excellent compassionate gender affirming top surgeries, shifting into senior residency, UNMH’s clinical Surgical Specialties Clinic is no longer providing gender-affirming surgeries. There is currently only one surgeon in all of Albuquerque who takes Medicaid and offers gender-affirming surgeries. HB7 was meant to prevent institutions such as UNMH from making it harder for individuals to access gender-affirming health care – clearly, this situation is going against the spirit of that bill. 

Why are there no other residents in line to replace Dr. Kuhn? Why aren’t attending UNMH physicians offering and teaching gender-affirming surgeries? Why isn't gender-affirming care a mandatory rotation within Surgical Specialties? As a state-funded teaching hospital in a state that prioritizes gender-affirming care, UNMH should prioritize ensuring there are residents and attending physicians to bridge the gap for such care that currently exists in NM.  With an entire new building funded by the legislature, how is there no space for gender affirming care?

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I am writing as a current patient of UNM’s care as well as a gender doula advocating for the compassionate care I received, to be taught and available to all of those seeking gender affirming care. I will forever cherish the care I received with resident Dr Kuhn through UNM surgical specialties. I will fight for everyone to receive this essential life giving care that everyone deserves.

Ďakujeme za vašu podporu, Top Surgery Care Network , Albuquerque
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Petícia začala: 16. 06. 2025
Zbierka končí: 22. 07. 2025
Kraj : Nové Mexiko
kategória: Zdravie

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  • Dear Signer of the Petition for Gender Affirming Care at UNMH,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to sign the petition. We have some exciting news! And just 6 more days to meet our goal of 500 signatures! If everyone who has signed already is able to get 1 comrade to sign, we will more than double our goal.

    Are you able to send the petition to 1 friend, group or listserve you are a part of? If so, you can send them this link: http://www.openpetition.org/!gendercareunmh You can also print out the petition, collect signatures, and upload it onto this site if you are so inspired!

    Good news: Thanks to the pressure of folks who have emailed, called, and had conversations with UNMH leadership, some of the the higher level management within UNMH are having conversations they have never had before about beginning a multi disciplinary one-stop model for gender affirming care- where all care- like endocrinology, therapy, primary care, and surgical care to be met in a single service line where trans folks will be respected, honored and offered compassionate, affirming care! Good work everyone!

    Continued pressure will still be supportive to let UNMH know just how many folks care about this issue and will support them to follow through on these great ideas with actionable steps, like funding from the NM state legislature etc.

    In these difficult times as the systems that are currently in place are failing us, and crumbling, it is important to keep dreaming, to keep visioning what we want to build to catch us.

    Thank you for your continued support!

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