Health Liberation Now!

Health Liberation Now! (HLN) is a trans led advocacy organization which reports on political attacks on transgender rights and advocates equitable access to transition-related healthcare for transgender people and detransitioners/retransitioners.
Founding
Health Liberation Now! was founded by Lee Leveille and Ky Schevers January 2021, who had previously been involved in transphobic detransition communities. Schevers stated "We were both involved in these really messed-up detransition communities, which I actually played a role in starting. Now I look back and actually like a cult or a high-demand group."
Leveille stated "I am increasingly seeing the signs of targeted acts of eradication. We are already beginning to see signs of pogroms." Leveille is concerned about a transgender cultural genocide, wherein transgender youth could be "channelled en masse into conversion therapy" and adults "systematically forced back into the closet."
The organization has documented what they term "TAnon", anti-trans activism within QAnon. Leveille has reported "crossover" between the far right and gender-critical feminists, with Neo-fascists and QAnon boosting gender critical writing and Christian groups spreading the discredited theory of rapid-onset gender dysphoria, which had originated from parent reports on gender critical websites. The Independent stated Leveille argues that over the past 5 years "these causes have increasingly coalesced, with gender critical material serving as ammunition for conservatives, QAnon, and the far right, as well as vice versa."
The organization has created an online mapping project to identify the relationships between the leaders of the anti-trans groups and anti-trans conversion therapy groups.
New York Times article
On June 15, 2022, Emily Bazelon wrote an article in the New York Times which was criticized for platforming Genspect, a group known for campaigning against transgender rights, and the fact the article was used as supposed proof of lack of medical consensus on transgender care by the state of Texas in a court case to . Ky Schevers and Lee Leveille had been interviewed by Bazelon and warned her against inclusion of Genspect, but their interviews were not included in the published piece. Schevers told the Texas Observer "it was disappointing and infuriating to see her disregard our warnings and now to learn that her article is being used as evidence to stop trans youth from accessing healthcare." In a response on Health Liberation Now's website, they accused the Times of "fueling a dangerous political debate over the existence of trans people and their ability to access supportive healthcare."

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