BayWindows.com – Associated Press
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…