Yes. Just...*yes*

The Jim Collins Foundation

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.

I have no idea if I would qualify once they get up and running, as I'm not sure if they're in-state only. But...right now, I'm not thinking about me. I'm thinking about all the trans people who could be helped just in CT.

I am most definitely donating once I start work again. And I hope those of you that can, will, too.

ETA: Just donated $10. Feels so good.

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Found in an article on the Jim Collins Foundation's website.

"I think some people are just limited...Even if they knew how much it hurt my soul when they use the wrong pronoun, I'm not sure they would stop."

*thinks of the limited people in hir family* I think there will be a bigger post on the transition blog about this. I just...in a place right now where brooding about this stuff isn't the best idea.

Um, yeah

Okay. Meltdown mostly over, I think.

Better news...kind of?

Watching JB's performance of Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic on Strictly Come Dancing...

I've decided I want to learn to dance.

I've kind of wanted to for years now. I had a section of dance in PE in middle school, but erm...yeah. Less said about those few weeks, the better.

But...well, Melody knows how to dance, and since we'll be room mates, I'm thinking of asking her to teach me. Call it a desire to be versed in as many gentlemanly arts as I can, to overcome my natural clumsiness, whatever.

The biggest obstacle I see right now is the height difference between me and Melody--she's a good 8 inches taller than me. But...well, we'll see if she agrees to teach me before I worry about anything else.