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USAID cuts shutter India's first clinic for transgender people
BBC News ^ | March 3, 2025 | by Imran Qureshi, Cherylann Mollan

Posted on 03/03/2025 4:27:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

India's first medical clinic for transgender people has shut operations in three cities after US President Donald Trump stopped foreign aid to it.

Mitr (friend) Clinic, which was started in 2021 in the southern city of Hyderabad, offered HIV treatment, gender affirming support and counselling services to thousands of transgender people.

In Hyderabad, the Mitr Clinic offered care to 150 to 200 transgender patients each month, many of whom suffered from HIV. The clinic had a small team of doctors, psychologists and technical staff.

"We were receiving 250,000 rupees ($2900; £2300) every month to provide services," Rachana Mudraboyina, a trans woman who was in-charge of the clinic, told BBC Hindi.

The news of the clinic's closure has come as a blow to the community.

Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli, a trans woman who has visited the clinic, told The Indian Express newspaper that she was "devastated" by the news as the clinic used to offer treatment at subsidised rates.

Another trans woman, who was hoping to avail of the clinic's gender affirming services, told the Express that she was sad that she would no longer be able to do this.

India is estimated to have around two million transgender people, though activists say the number is higher.

There are state-run and private hospitals that offer medical help to the community, but many say they prefer going to Mitr Clinics because they find it more affordable and inclusive.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinic; homosexualagenda; india; perverts; trans; usaid
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1 posted on 03/03/2025 4:27:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perfect!


2 posted on 03/03/2025 4:29:15 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Ukraine stands as a warning that countries must sufficiently provide for their OWN defense.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great! Let India pay for it if its such a great idea...

Same with every other similar program world-wide.


3 posted on 03/03/2025 4:32:37 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“India’s first medical clinic for transgender people has shut operations...”

With all of their engineering and tech prowess, they should be able to afford their own weirdos.


4 posted on 03/03/2025 4:32:51 AM PST by cdcdawg (The Left should cry harder.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a tragedy. /sarcasm


5 posted on 03/03/2025 4:34:18 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thank you President Trump.

Now the Indian government can fleece its own people to pay for this insanity.


6 posted on 03/03/2025 4:38:14 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Those fools act like that's a bad thing. It's not that Western Civilization's Moral Compass is off a few degrees. Truth is that Western Civilization has no Moral Compass.
7 posted on 03/03/2025 4:43:26 AM PST by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why have I been having to pay for this crappola?


8 posted on 03/03/2025 4:49:11 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bravo! The USA Funding perversion and mental illness is over (well, overseas and for now)


9 posted on 03/03/2025 4:50:33 AM PST by DAC21
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh no!


10 posted on 03/03/2025 4:51:07 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: EvilCapitalist
standard FR protocol is to use Jerry Seinfeld


11 posted on 03/03/2025 4:51:47 AM PST by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The reality is that if the perverts die, they don’t need funds for treatment.


12 posted on 03/03/2025 4:53:12 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Joe Boucher

You were drafted in the war to make the world safe for perverts.


13 posted on 03/03/2025 4:55:01 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Historic!


14 posted on 03/03/2025 4:57:42 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: cdcdawg
With all of their engineering and tech prowess, they should be able to afford their own weirdos.

You're so right. This clinic was started in 2021 using our money. That's what the RATS meant when they said after Biden took office that the adults were back in charge.

Every Republican member of Congress should be mailing lists of how the Democrats used USAID to piss our money away around the world instead of leaving the media to cast President Trump and Musk as villains for cutting off these programs. Take the top 10 or 20 programs and let people see it for themselves.

15 posted on 03/03/2025 4:58:53 AM PST by Dahoser (Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So?


16 posted on 03/03/2025 4:59:53 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good.

NEXT!!!


17 posted on 03/03/2025 5:01:04 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Dahoser

Good post.

I would list more than one hundred LGBT programs on each mailer—a couple in large print and the rest in smaller print.

Folks out there have no clue of the scale of this stuff.


18 posted on 03/03/2025 5:02:36 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it’s so important why can’t the Indian govt pay for it?


19 posted on 03/03/2025 5:07:08 AM PST by The Louiswu (You get what you vote for, good and hard.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another cash fire put out good deal.


20 posted on 03/03/2025 5:14:40 AM PST by Vaduz
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