![]() Thank you Thalia Beaty, Brendan Farrington, and Hannah Schoenbaum for your reporting. Her company decided to open in-person clinics and hire more physicians licensed in Florida in order to continue to provide care to patients who have already enrolled, even though that represents a major change to the company’s business model. “For trans adults, it’s devastating,” said Kate Steinle, Chief Clinical Officer at FOLX Health, which provides gender-affirming care to trans adults through telemedicine. Read on to learn more about the impacts of the anti-trans legislation, and what FOLX Health is doing to help. We are mobilizing all the resources we can to be able to serve LGBTQI+ people in Florida. We are hearing from our members every day about how scared they are about these new laws. Our main goal is to address the inequities that Black transgender people face in various aspects of life, including health, employment, housing, and education.This Pride month nearly 100,000 trans adults in Florida are facing new barriers to care, and many have already lost access. The National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition was established in 2011 and is the only social justice organization led by Black trans individuals. In January 2021, FOLX Health established the FOLX HRT Care Fund which redistributes financial resources from allies inside and outside of the LGBTQIA+ community to support trans, nonbinary, and intersex folks to access gender-affirming care through FOLX. FOLX Health provides end-to-end virtual primary care, gender-affirming care including hormone therapy (HRT), PrEP, care navigation, content and community through a diverse network of queer and trans-specialized providers. ![]() The company delivers a new standard of healthcare that’s built by and for LGBTQIA+ people. ![]() Launched in December 2020, FOLX Health is an LGBTQIA+ healthcare service provider built to serve the community’s specific needs. To learn more about Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, visit. Through the campaign website, supporters will be able to donate funds, win perks and take part in a digital auction featuring goods and services from LGBTQ+ and ally brands, including signed books from trans advocate Schuyler Bailer and nonbinary activist Jeffrey Marsh, Stealth Bros & Co Dopp Kits, For Them binders, Ary World makeup by Alex Renee, trans vocal training lessons, trans job seeking resources, art from the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and more. The digital campaign will run for the month of June on Rally Up and will include a livestream event hosted by Alex Renee, a FOLX member and social media creator with nearly 8 million followers on TikTok. It is our hope that the FOLX Care Fund and this year’s campaign will shine a light on the community in a time when there is so much uncertainty surrounding trans rights.” “With an overwhelming amount of anti-LGBTQIA+ bills being introduced at an alarming rate, we’re taking a stand in solidarity with the trans community, setting our most ambitious fundraising goal yet. “FOLX Health was founded to transform healthcare for the LGBTQIA+ community and to increase access to care for those of us who have been most marginalized by legacy healthcare systems,” said CEO of FOLX Health, Liana Douillet Guzman. They are bridging the gap for the staggering 38% of transgender folks who want hormone therapy, but have been unable to access it and, aiding the 1 in 3 who have avoided seeking care due to costs. FOLX Health and BTAC are pledging to use their platform and resources to grant trans people in need of the life-saving treatment they deserve. Since the launch of the FOLX Health HRT Care Fund in 2021, FOLX Health and BTAC have partnered to fund gender-affirming hormone therapy for the transgender community, and have distributed grants worth over $350,000 to people who otherwise couldn’t afford it – with a special focus on Black trans grantees and trans people of color. The fundraising goal draws attention to the 491 anti-LGBTQ bills sweeping the nation. The fundraising campaign embarks on an ambitious goal to raise $400,000 to grant 491 trans people a year of gender-affirming hormone therapy, along with prescription medication, clinical visits, messaging and labs, as well as support for basic needs such as housing and employment.
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