Ferndale Pride drops Corewell Health as sponsor over gender-affirming care cuts
The move comes after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel urged hospitals not to violate the state's anti-discrimination laws.
Sponsors for Ferndale Pride have been slow to committ funding this year.
Ferndale Pride — which hosts an annual gay pride celebration that draws roughly 30,000 people — will no longer accept sponsorship money from Corewell Health after the hospital system became the first in the state to announce it is limiting gender-affirming care for minors.
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