ANN ARBOR, MI — More than 30 people protested outside the University of Michigan Board of Regents meeting Thursday in opposition to the university’s decision to end gender-affirming care for minors.

Protesters held signs that read “Protect trans kids” and “Trans rights are human rights” near the entrance of the university’s Ruthven Administration Building on North University Avenue. They called Michigan Medicine’s decision “violent” and “fascist” and one spoke during public comment at the Sept. 18 meeting.

“We’ve thrown our kids to the wolves,” Amy Milligan, 51, parent to a transgender daughter, told the Board of Regents.

“Our kids are in real danger.”

Milligan, of Ann Arbor, said hormone therapy helped her daughter’s transition, and she is deeply concern for the safety of transgender

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