“S*x and the City” star Cynthia Nixon lambasted New York University
— as well as President Donald Trump — for canceling procedures that gave kids puberty-blocking medication. The actress, while speaking into a microphone at a rally in front of NYU on Monday night, said she was “mad as hell” at the school.
From her speech: “Most importantly, I am here today as the mother of a proud trans man.
I am here today as the aunt of a proud trans man.
My best friend’s kid is trans, and my kid’s best friend is trans.
My wife and I, our lives are filled with the most amazing, beautiful, brave trans people—young and old, but especially young.
My trans kid had his top surgery at NYU a number of years ago.
His doctors were fantastic. His surgeon was the best we could have imagined. And the idea that this city is filled with young people who thought they had a place to go where they could receive the highest care, and that place has now been shut to them, sickens me. Sickens me to my core.
So I want to say, the last two weeks have been an assault, a barrage—so many horrific things coming at us from every direction. You don’t even know where to look or how to try and block the horror that is coming in our direction.
But since the inauguration, and I would say actually since the election, nothing has made me feel so good as coming around the corner today and seeing you all standing here, fighting for trans rights.
It’s so hard to know, being attacked on so many fronts, it is so hard to know where and how to react first. But today I know this is where I’m planting my flag.
And I want to tell the people of NYU, as I told you, I just live a few blocks away. You’re going to be seeing a lot of me.
And you’re going to be seeing a lot of this amazing crowd of people, and there are a lot of people here today, and we are mad as hell.
But as many people as are here today, it is vitally important that we come back again and again and again, and our size grows.
Because what is happening all over this country, it cannot happen in New York. Here is where we have to take a stand.
We love New York. New York is better than this. NYU should be better than this. Shame on you! And thank you all for being here. We must return again and again until this crime is reversed.”
