The Jim Collins Foundation

[Guest JazzySmurf]

Hi :-)

For those of you who may not be aware, there is a nice group out of Connecticut who help provide financial assistance for trans-health surgeries. Their mission statement is as follows:

The mission of the Jim Collins Foundation is to provide financial assistance to transgender people for gender-confirming surgeries. The Jim Collins Foundation recognizes that not every transgender person needs or wants surgery to achieve a healthy transition. But for those who do, gender-confirming surgeries are an important step in their transition to being their true selves. However, access to gender-confirming surgery is impossible for most. Discrimination against transgender people is so prevalent that many transgender people struggle to survive, never mind save for surgery costs. Even for those who have health insurance, coverage is systematically denied. Many insurance policies contain a “Transsexual Exclusion Clause” which excludes all medical procedures related to a person’s transgender status. For many transgender people, access to surgery is out of reach.

The Jim Collins Foundation raises money to fund gender-confirming surgeries for those transgender people who need surgery to live a healthy life, but have no ability to pay for it themselves. We recognize that for those people who require surgery for a healthy gender transition, lack of access to surgery may result in hopelessness, depression, and sometimes, suicide. The Jim Collins Foundation is a community-based initiative promoting the self-determination and empowerment of all transgender people. Dru Levasseur and Tony Ferraiolo are available for speaking engagements.

Their website is http://jimcollinsfoundation.org/

They are 501©3 not-for-profit organization (i.e., the donations can be written off on your taxes), and so if you are able to support them, then I suggest you do so.

Have a wonderful day.

Heather

[Guest doodle]

yeah I know about them. I know Dru and Kim Watson. there is another group CKlife that helps folks out health care and transition needs. They are experts on getting things through health insurance. they are the ones that helped me with GHI, KIm Watsonis one of the founders of CKlife

Kelly