TransHealthAccess:How to help

Andi says:

Trans Health Access Wiki needs help! I really do hope that this project grows and becomes a group effort and not just something I'm researching on my own. Ultimately, this site should contain exact information for every U.S. state on "what transition-related care are health plans required to cover" and "how do I get them to actually do it" for Medicaid, state employees, people in prisons, and private insurance plans. Even a solid "no, nothing is covered" is useful for most of these states (although we should have some sort of cite for that). Right now I have three states and little information outside of private insurance plans.

If you would like to see this site grow, here are the two biggest things that would help:


 * Check out the TODO page. These are the important pieces of work that still need to be done. I'm especially interested in talking to anyone who is fluent in Spanish and can translate pages. Some advice on how to write for the site is on the contribution guidelines page.
 * The instructions on this site? If you can, try them! The focus of this site is recent changes in law that guarantee transition coverage. So we have a problem: These regulations are mostly pretty new and in a lot of cases, they are untested. They have problems. They are too hard to use. They don't work as advertised. We need to know what these problems are. We need to know this both so that we can warn people about to enter the process on this site what issues to expect, and so that we can shine a brighter light on the limitations of these systems and demand better. If you got one of these systems to work, that's even more interesting! Let us know how you did it. Eventually this site will have a dedicated section to pseudonymously share personal experiences, but until then I would be interested to hear from you by email (see below).

If you would like more information about how to contribute, or in general you just have comments or suggestions, please feel free to [mailto:transhealthaccess@gmail.com email me]. If you would like to start a discussion about suggestions for future site directions, you can post this on the TransHealthAccess_talk:TODO page.

[b]Note: Due to spam problems, I have had to shut off new user signups. If you wish to become a contributor here, please email me. And if you know anything about hardening a wiki against spam, PLEASE EMAIL ME. Thanks.[/b]