In brief: Transgender Emergency Fund thrives, seeks more $$

[Shana A]

In brief: Transgender Emergency Fund thrives, seeks more $$
Thursday Apr 16, 2009

http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3&id=89738

Lorin Gartenlaub, a transwoman living in Worcester, was in a bind last winter: she needed several hundred dollars for the co-pay for a medication her doctor prescribed to treat her multiple sclerosis, but she did not have the money.

When she mentioned her dilemma to Jesse Pack, who at the time was the facilitator for the New Horizons transgender support group, Pack suggested she apply for assistance from the Transgender Emergency Fund, which Pack and some friends had founded just a few months before to meet emergency expenses for low-income transgender people. The fund came forward with the money to make the co-pay, and it also put forward money to pay down some of her debt built up from past medical expenses.