Yea Connecticut!

Oh what a difference between Red and Blue! One “Woke” open to all, and one exclusionary.

States that are open to all versus states that are based in white supremacy.

CT has resources for transgender university students, but some are falling through gaps

Connecticut Public Radio

By Sujata Srinivasan

June 16, 2023

Yale University will expand its LGBTQ+ mental health team this fall, in response to student needs.

Wait times for therapy at Yale decreased this year “due to an aggressive recruitment campaign,” said Peter Steere, chief operating officer at Yale Health. The average wait time for an initial appointment with a mental health provider is now four days. Students told Connecticut Public Radio that they’ve had to wait for months previously.

Still, activists say transgender students are falling through the gaps across Connecticut not because of a lack of resources, but because university staff often fail to connect students with resources outside their system.

On a page in a coloring book, a yellow moon hangs low over a leafy green stalk, sheltering cozily napping cats. Anyuye Ai, a 21-year-old student at Yale University, filled in the colors.

While down in Florida… New College of Florida is stripping diversity classes and Black Studies. Healthcare is being band for trans people. Schools are being band from saying anything “Gay.”

 drag queens are band from public places.

She could have got on Yale’s specialty insurance; her parents were able to afford it, she said, but they chose not to, knowing that she would then gain access to gender-affirming care.

The tragedy is that Ai’s solution was located just 17 minutes away in Hamden at Anchor Health, the state’s leading health care center for queer people by queer people, where she finally ended up in January this year.

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In Hartford, Kamora Herrington is a cultural humility educator, and part of her work is to get trans students the resources they need in the community.

“Day one,” Herrington lamented. “[If] someone had just said Anchor, she could have gotten right over. And this is where everyone from soup to nuts needs to know everything. And the gatekeepers need to pull all of their gatekeeping off. Because that's the only way it works.”

Connecticut has some of the strongest laws in the country protecting trans rights. And the Connecticut Department of Social Services was one of the first Medicaid programs nationally to add a wide set of treatment and services for gender transition.

“We have wonderful rights, we've got wonderful protections, we've got wonderful things covered,” Herrington said.

CNN writes,

This year has been record shattering for anti-LGBTQ legislation, with particular scrutiny on gender-affirming health care access for transgender children and teenagers. Nineteen states have passed laws restricting it — but not all bans are the same.

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I'm in love with a big blue frog state*

A big blue frog state loves me

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