This is a tough one.

I too, came of age around the time of the Kowalski case. I remember sitting in a small crowd at a lesbo coffee house listening to Thompson. I also remember a decade later, weeping at the sight of them together in the lead car of the NYC pride parade.

During my ex’s health crisis, we were extraordinarily lucky. Partly because she received treatment at the hospital she worked at, but also partly because she had compassionate, principled providers. Her oncologist in particular, an ex-Army man, was amazing.

Needless to say, we had the usual paperwork for which we’d paid thousands, but we were never once asked to show it.

And that’s the thing, you know. It shouldn’t be amazing for someone in the health care field to be compassionate, principled, inclusive, they should all be, to everyone.

In the experiences of others I know that have dealt with health care discrimination, it was the institutional bureaucracy that was unyielding.

I was aware of the Florida and California intiatives but not the arkansas and arizona. Thanks for the heads up

It makes my blood run cold to think of a social worker acting in such a manner.