When the VIVID Health Clinic, part of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Program for LGBTQ Health, shut down with no notice to its patients, and when Neighborhood Health spinelessly stopped offering gender-affirming services, mutual aid collective Trans Aid Nashville stepped up. Along with publicly advocating for transgender, genderqueer and nonconforming folks (and others!), TAN offers financial assistance and other resources, and hosts big, fun dance parties for fundraising. In July, TAN also put together a multimedia group show — a tender exhibition on self-actualization — at Elephant Gallery. When other systems fail, get behind the ones making a community — and that means groups like TAN.
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