India’s first transgender clinic has closed after losing its funding from USAid.
Mitr Clinic, located in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, had its USAid slush fund cut off as part of the recent 90-day freeze imposed by President Donald Trump.
All of the staff have been fired and customers have been urged to go elsewhere.
“We were informed that the funds had been cut off because president Trump ordered a freeze on our clinic’s funding,” a former clinic official told The Telegraph.
“We had been serving hundreds of transgender patients, providing mental healthcare and transition-related medical services.”
”We stopped operations in early February, with no hope of resuming.”
The clinic was founded in 2021 by USAID in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
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