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Out-of-State Group Offering Travel Grants to Fly New Hampshire Minors Out for Transgender Procedures
- Granite Eagle
- Aug 5
- 2 min read
CONCORD, NH — A national activist organization is offering financial incentives to families in New Hampshire to travel out of state for medical procedures involving transgender-identifying minors, in response to the state’s recently enacted restrictions on gender-transition interventions for youth.
The Trans Youth Emergency Project (TYEP), a program organized by the North Carolina-based Campaign for Southern Equality, has launched a campaign in New Hampshire with the assistance of 603 Equality. The project is offering up to $2,000 annually per child in renewable travel grants to cover the cost of trips to out-of-state medical providers. The funds are being advertised as a way for families to circumvent state laws that prohibit certain gender-related medical interventions on minors.
According to TYEP’s official toolkit, the initiative includes:
“Patient navigation services” to connect families with out-of-state clinics,
$500 travel grants, renewable up to four times per year,
Access to “a network of care and information” for families seeking services restricted in their home state.
The campaign’s messaging encourages social media users and activists to spread awareness of the travel grants and patient services available to New Hampshire residents. Promotional materials suggest that trans-identifying minors facing healthcare “bans” in the state are being unfairly denied access to what TYEP calls “best-practice medical care,” and the group positions itself as a workaround for the law.
TYEP and its partners have not publicly clarified whether the minors receiving these subsidies are undergoing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries, or other types of medical procedures—only that the care being sought is unavailable due to state policy. However, the organization openly references the ability to “get the care they need to thrive,” and emphasizes that the services being pursued involve “essential healthcare.”
The Campaign for Southern Equality, which is not based in New Hampshire, began the TYEP initiative in 2023 and claims to have distributed over $600,000 in emergency grants to families in 28 states. It now lists New Hampshire among the states where such support is available.
The group’s outreach includes social media campaigns and email blasts that target families impacted by state-level bans. Their messaging blames state lawmakers for enacting what it calls “cruel legislation,” and pledges to continue aiding families as they “travel hundreds of miles several times a year” to obtain the medical interventions.
State lawmakers who supported the recent protections for minors have argued that gender-transition procedures carry irreversible consequences and that decisions involving permanent medical changes should not be made before adulthood. Supporters of the travel grant program reject that position and frame the issue as one of access and equity.
Critics of the program have expressed concern that a national group offering cash incentives to fly minors out of state for controversial medical procedures undermines both state law and parental discretion.
The program is promoted through the website www.transyouthemergencyproject.org/nh, and is being advertised throughout New Hampshire via social media and partner organizations.
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