トランプ氏の反トランスジェンダー政策に抗議デモ 米ＮＹ

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】米ニューヨークで３日、トランスジェンダーの子どもに対する医療を制限するドナルド・トランプ氏の大統領令に抗議するデモが行われた。（写真は、米ニューヨーク市で、トランスジェンダーの権利を守るデモに参加した人）
　米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズの報道によると、ニューヨーク大学ランゴーン医療センターでは、大統領令に従い、トランスジェンダーの子ども２人の予約がキャンセルされた。同紙によると、親の一人は医師から「新政権のせいだ」と告げられた。
　同センターはＡＦＰの取材に対し、コメントを拒否した。
　デモ隊は、同センターが見えるマンハッタンの公園に集結。「トランスの未来を守れ」「憎悪に屈するな」「沈黙を破れ」といったスローガンが記されたプラカードを掲げ、抗議した。ＡＦＰ記者によると、少なくとも１人が警察に拘束された。
　先月就任したトランプ氏は、連邦政府の研究・教育助成金を受け取る機関に対し、１９歳未満の性適合治療を打ち切るよう命じる大統領令に署名した。
　あるデモ参加者は「地元自治体での組織づくりから始め、トランプの言いなりにならない市長を選ぶことが重要だ」と述べた。
　トランスジェンダーの一人としてスピーチに立ったラビ（ユダヤ教の宗教指導者）のアビー・スタイン師は、トランプ氏は「この国で最も脆弱（ぜいじゃく）なグループの一つ」を標的にしていると非難。「私たちが求めているのは、生きる権利、基本的な医療を受ける権利だ」と語った。
　政権復帰後のトランプ氏はトランスジェンダーの人々を標的とし、性別は男性と女性の二つしか認めないとする大統領令にも署名。国務省は海外渡航者向けのウェブサイトで、「ＬＧＢＴＱ」の表記から、トランスジェンダーの頭文字「Ｔ」とクィアを示す「Ｑ」を削除した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/02/04-18:20）

Hundreds of people protested in New York Monday against President Donald Trump's executive orders restricting treatment for transgender children, and reports that a local hospital group consequently cancelled appointments for two trans youths.
A noisy crowd packed into Manhattan's St. Vartan park, in sight of a campus of NYU Langone Health which The New York Times reports cancelled appointments of two trans children following Trump's decree.
Protect trans futures, don't capitulate to hate and break the silence read the slogans on some of the banners brandished by the crowds of protesters, at least one of whom was detained by police, an AFP correspondent saw.
Last month, Trump issued a sweeping executive order requiring institutions receiving federal research or education grants to end forms of gender affirming treatment for children under 19, and directed his incoming health secretary to do everything to end the practice.
It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures, the policy reads.
Two 12-year-old children due to receive puberty-blocker implants at NYU Langone had their appointments cancelled, with one parent recounting a doctor told them it was because of the new administration, the Times reported.
NYU Langone Health declined to comment to AFP.
I don't regularly come to rallies like this. Trans people have always existed, we are not going to go away just because they make lawmakers uncomfortable, said one trans protester from Brooklyn who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation.
- 'Most vulnerable groups' -
It starts with local organizing and getting a mayor who is not willing to do Trump's bidding.
Referring to the claims NYU Langone suspended care for trans younth, the demonstrator said it's about not complying in advance.
We're sick of putting up with this, they said.
One speaker at the rally, Julie, said they had received gender affirming care at NYU Langone Health for 15 years and was very fortunate.
We're now at the slightest pushback from Washington, an illegal executive order, the CEO of NYU Langone has already started canceling appointments for trans youth, they said.
Speaker rabbi Abby Stein, who is trans, accused Trump of singling out one of the most vulnerable groups in this country.
We're asking for the right to be alive. We're asking for the right to basic health care, they said.
In a blizzard of executive action since returning to power, Trump has singled out trans people, with the State Department removing T and Q from LGBTQ country travel advisories, as well as decreeing departments only recognize two genders.
While campaigning, Trump routinely demonized any recognition of gender diversity, attacking transgender people -- notably transgender women in sports -- and gender-affirming care for children.