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YOU SEE ADVANCES COLOR Letters Rely on a leading Rainbow Chamber Foundation - this should Rainbow Chamber Gala prove to be a fun part of our night! lender that takes pride Dinner Planned I look forward to seeing you on September Dear Outword, 18 at the Woodlake Hotel Sacramento. To Please join your fellow members and register for the event, go to rainbowchamber. in the communities we serve guests of the LGBT Rainbow Chamber of com/events-2. Commerce for our annual Dinner Gala on We hope to see you there! Whether youre buying your first home, building a new home, or refinancing or Tuesday, September 18 at the Woodlake Michael Sestak remodeling your current one, you want financing thats well-matched to your unique Hotel. Dinner Committee Chairman needs and goals in life. The festivities begin with cocktail hour at Our commitment to the LGBT community dates back to the s so we understand 6 p.m. followed by dinner and our keynote Grant Available for Queer how to help you find home financing to meet your needs. speaker and scholarship presentations at 7 p.m. Comics Prism Comics is accepting submissions for this year’s Queer Press Grant (QPG), the only grant established to assist in the publication and promotion of LGBT comics. “The Queer Press Grant is a significant resource to help promote LGBT themes in independent comics, and to support up-and- coming cartoonists bringing their projects Danni McConnell Jonathan Brozek into the world. 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I also want to thank our contributing writers and photographers who bring you the stories 17 YEARS continues on page 28 outwordmagazine.com August 23, 2012 - September 13, 2012 • Volume 25 • Issue 16 • No. 463 Outword Magazine 7 Feds Ban Some Trans Discrimination The Center to by Boyce Hinman ecently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Hold Suicide (HHS) released a letter saying that the Affordable Care Act Rbans discrimination against transgender people by federally Prevention funded health care providers. This means that federally funded doctors, ten types of health care providers which Training hospitals, clinics, nursing homes or other may not discriminate against transgender he Sacramento Gay health care providers (such as those paid by people. Medi-Cal or Medicaid) may not discriminate Transgender people often suffer when and Lesbian Center will against transgender patients on the basis of health care providers violate their patient’s Thold training on suicide their gender identity, or their failure to privacy by disclosing personal information, prevention, with experts from conform to stereotypical notions of from the patient’s medical records, without masculinity or femininity. the permission of the patient. This can lead two local agencies providing HHS encourages people who suffer such to embarrassment and harassment of the insight into recognizing when discrimination to submit complaints to the patient. someone may be suicidal and Department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR).