Suggested Resources on International Transgender Day of Visibility
Wait…What?! Is a platform for candid discussion for the Women’s Fund community to convene on emerging issues we all face, albeit with varied challenges.
Our next Wait…What will be hosted on International Transgender Day of Visibility. Our discussion will cover available services for folks of Trans and Gender Diverse communities, updates on state legislation, and how national policies impact service providers in our region. We will be joined by members of the Survivor Arts Collective, representatives from Tapestry, and staff from Western New England University’s Center for Social Justice.
Articles
- Supporting the Transgender Community: Gender Affirming Care Resources by Adam Hanson, RN, BSN | Registered Nursing
- Finding Your True Voice: A Guide to Gender-Affirming Verbal Communication by Emily Waters | Online Speech Pathology Programs
- In Western Massachusetts, a clinic by and for transgender people seeks to revolutionize health care by Kate Sosin | The 19th
- Gender-Affirming Care Offers a Model for All of Health Care by Dallas Ducar | Boston Globe
- Trans Resistance Activists Stage Second Annual Alternative to Boston Pride by Laura Crimaldi | Boston Globe
- Massachusetts Leads the Way in Caring for the Health Needs of Trans and Gender-Diverse People
- By Dallas Ducar | Boston Globe
- These Are The States Attempting to Pass Anti-Trans Health Care Bills
- By Ella Schneiberg | Human Rights Campaign
- AG’s Office Reminds Health Care Providers That Gender-affirming Surgeries Are Covered by MassHealth
- Office of Attorney General Maura Healey
- The Pervasiveness Of Transgender Health Care Discrimination
- By Brit Hanson | NPR
- 2021 Set a Record for Anti-Transgender Bills. Here’s How You Can Support the Community.
- By Amna Nawaz | PBS
- UMass healthcare for transgender students: what it offers and where it falls short
- By Sophia Gardner | The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
- For Transgender Youth, Stigma Is Just One Barrier to Health Care
- By Sabrina Imbler | The New York Times
- Anti-Transgender legislation reaches all-time high in the first months of 2021
- By Leo Woods | The Suffolk Journal
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Research
GLAAD
- 2021 State of HIV Stigma
- Covering 2020: The Issues
- Understanding Issues Facing Transgender Americans
The Trevor Project
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Center for Transgender Equality
- 2015 US Transgender Survey Massachusetts State Report
- The Full Report of the 2015 US Transgender Survey
Massachusetts Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Youth
MA Special Legislative Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging
Advocacy Organizations and Ways to Support
- The Trevor Project
- GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
- LGBTQIA+ Aging Project
- Massachusetts transgender resources | Transgender Map by Andrea James
- Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
- Things You Can Do For Transgender Equality (Allyship by GLAAD)
- Be An Ally—Support Trans Equality (Allyship by Human Rights Campaign)
Legislation
- An Act establishing the Massachusetts foster care review office
- An Act to eliminate disproportionality and inequities for at-risk children
- An Act relative to LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum
- An Act relative to healthy youth
- House: H. 673 – James J. O’Day & Vanna Howard
- Senate: S. 318 Sal N. DiDomenico
- An Act relative to trans-inclusive health care access
- House: H. 4079 – Natalie M. Higgins
- An Act relative to establishing a model school policy on suicide prevention
- Senate: S. 1303 – Joan B. Lovely
- An Act establishing health equity at all levels in government
- House: H. 2373 – Liz Miranda
- Senate: S. 1388 – Joanne M. Comerford
- An Act to provide criminal justice reform protections to all prisoners in segregated confinement
- House: H. 2504 – Liz Miranda
- Senate: S. 1578 – James B. Eldridge
- An Act establishing gender-neutral bathrooms
- House: H. 3124 – Mindy Domb
- Senate: S. 2026 – Joanne M. Comerford
- An Act providing for a gender-neutral designation on state documents and identifications
- An Act to ensure LGBTQ representation within the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
- Senate: S. 2068 – Adam G. Hinds
- An Act to stop profiling transgender people and low-income women
- House H. 1800 – Liz Miranda
- Senate: S. 992 – Julian Cyr
