The Student Health Center and Pride Hub celebrated International Transgender Day of Visibility, with a two-part event — a headlining drag portion followed by a poignant, intimate discussion covering the life experiences and perspectives of the four trans women.
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A new alliance of predominately transgender, gender-nonconforming and intersex-led organizations has at the top of its agenda securing taxpayer dollars for a wellness fund created last year by California legislators.
As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2218 into law last September. The bill established the Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund but the money for it was stripped from the final version.
The bill intended to assist organizations serving people that identify as transgender, gender-nonconforming, or intersex, and help create or fund TGI-specific housing programs and partnerships with hospitals, health care clinics and other medical providers to provide TGI-focused health care did not look like it was going to pass at one point, due to its $15 million price tag at a time of budgetary concern prompted by to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Soto is a San Diego native, a queer Latinx community activist and a graduate student at the University of Southern California who is studying to be a licensed clinical social worker, and uses the pronouns he/him/his/el.
Recent government initiatives, such as the signing of Assembly Bill 2218, which established a transgender wellness and equity fund, and President Joe Biden’s recent executive orders expanding LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections have elevated the need for society as a whole to be open to being educated and to addressing our trans and nonbinary communities with a trauma-informed lens.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2218 on Sept. 26 to establish, promote and develop health and wellness resources for the trans and nonbinary communities as a means of achieving equity. Accessing mental health resources that support and empower trans and nonbinary people is vital throughout their gender affirmation journey.