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Taxpayer Philanthropy: $2.6M in federal funds paid to trans-care nonprofit
The contract funded no-cost medical and mental health services, while records show $1.28 million also came through a state passthrough grant.
- Mecklenburg County awarded $2.6 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to the Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group, supporting its Providing Access to Trans Healthcare program.
- Following North Carolina's 2023 ban on surgical or chemical treatments for minors, the nonprofit's government grant revenue surged to 78% of its 2024 total, compared with zero taxpayer funding in 2022.
- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services spokesman James Werner stated the agency's $1.28 million grant covers only adult services, though the group's website lists puberty suppression and hormone therapy for teens.
- Detransitioner Prisha Mosley criticized the taxpayer funding as "a really easy and pain-free way to virtue signal," while Lambda Legal senior counsel Omar Gonzalez-Pagan asserted that transgender individuals are also taxpayers entitled to services.
- Despite President Trump's January 2025 executive orders intended to restrict federal funding for gender medical treatments, money continues flowing to the group as legal challenges stall administration enforcement.
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Taxpayer Philanthropy: $2.6M in federal funds paid to trans-care nonprofit
(The Center Square) – Three years ago, North Carolina passed a stringent ban against transgender medical interventions on children, outlawing surgical or chemical treatments on anyone under 18. That same year, the fortunes of the nonprofit Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group…
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