Brad Lander

I came in my early 20s.

I raised my kids here.

They were born here.

They still don't consider me a New Yorker.

Oh, they don't.

Unfortunately, right now they have real reason to be scared because NYU Langone and Mount Sinai that provided gender affirming care...

For trans kids, puberty blockers have both stopped providing that health care in response to Trump threats.

People are working hard to sue.

That's a violation of New York City's state and but the city and the state's human rights law.

And there are some other organizations that provide it.

We're fighting like hell to get it back.

And of

Of course, it has been.

That's what Stonewall is about.

There's a great organization called The Door that I do a lot of work with because now they are the place where young asylum seekers go.

I met a kid from Sudan whose parents were killed by the RSF, comes to New York, The Door helps him.

The Door was set up because lesbian and gay kids were, you know, who had to leave home from all around the country started coming here in the

60s and 70s.

It's part of what makes New York great is all these people coming to be creative here.

It has to be a sanctuary.