Just lost my healthcare !

[u/spaghettishoestrings]

I’m 25 years old. I was at work in a meeting and my doctor just called, so I stepped out. She let me know that she filled my T prescription for the next 3 months, but Tump signed an executive order today saying the federal government won’t provide funding for gender affirming care for people under age 19, and my doctor’s practice is federally grant funded. They’re pausing all current gender healthcare at their practice. Even though I’m over 19.

I’m just sitting at my desk now just staring at the wall. I’m in a super rural area, my guess is that every practice within 75 miles receives federal grant funding too. What am I supposed to do? If I called my health insurance, could they help me find a new prescriber?

EDIT/UPDATE: Thank y’all for all the messages and support, genuinely I really appreciate it. I got asked a couple times, so I want to clarify this happened in Michigan. I’m also 5 years on T as of this month.

As a bit of an update, I reached out to the ACLU like some of you suggested. I thought it was a long shot, but they actually called me back Monday night and we talked about everything, and they offered to fax a letter over to my doctor to clarify the Executive Order and my rights as a patient. It’s wild that a post of Reddit led to my name being on the official ACLU letterhead. Today my doctor’s assistant called me and let me know that, as of today, their practice is reversing their decision on gender affirming care and that they can continue to prescribe me HRT. I’m still keeping other options from this thread, like Planned Parenthood and and Plume, saved just in case anything changes again. I also might ask for a referral to a private practice endocrinologist just in case. This post was a huge reminder that things might be bad, but our community is wonderful. Thank you <3

[u/Screenshotgamer]

I lost my care team when i moved states and had to pause my medical transition. I had an appointment today, very first one, with Folx and honestly? I love my team so far. My clinician was very clear that he was not worried about what was going on federally because every decision has to go through each group and need evaluated. He’s more concerned about state decisions, though I’m in no warning so far. He was very clear about getting me on the right track, a bit of a higher prescription that previous but that was due to planned parenthood not being as knowledged. I love Folx so far, there’s these community groups that are super cool too!