05/12/2026
š Link in bio š UM f*ed things upā¦ they donāt care about us!
Last year, Syre was scheduled to receive gender-affirming surgery through the University of Michigan. Because He had another surgery earlier that year, we had already met our out-of-pocket maximumāwhich meant this surgery would have been fully covered. We had a plan. We had hope. And then UM canceled it. Just like that. Only a month before the surgery- after a 2 year process- cancelled.
They do not care about trans people. UM made the choice to stop providing care for trans youth before they were required toāpreemptively complying before being forced. That decision told us everything we needed to know about how disposable our community is to institutions like them when things get politically hard. After the cancellation and this announcement, we are no longer comfortable receiving care from them.
So now, instead of care close to home, we are traveling all the way to Coloradoāfor a month at a time, twiceāso Syre can receive the gender-affirming care He deserves. Weāre paying down a whole new out-of-pocket maximum, covering flights, housing, food, time away from work, and all the costs that come with leaving our home state because the systems that were supposed to care for us decided not to.
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