Interview with Jaye Watts

An interview with Jaye Watts. Jaye is a transgender man, political activist, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Topics in order of discussion include: transgender civil rights and legal protections; Rhode Island hate crime laws; Safe Schools Act and bullying; the Rhode Island DMV and the drive to simplify changing gender designation on driver's licenses; changing gender designation on birth certificates; the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and transfer health care access; Thundermist; the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), protections for queer and trans youth in state care, and the Children's Bill of Rights in Rhode Island; the non binary gender marker for driver's licenses and birth certificates; LGBTQ+ people of color; assimilation; trans housing issues; and Options Magazine.

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Identifier: t148fh44t
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: RI LGBTQ+ Community Archives at Providence Public Library
Creator(s): Watts, Jaya
Contributor(s): Means, Selene
Publisher: Providence Public Library
Date Created: Apr. 11, 2020
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Affordable Care Act
Children's Bill of Rights in Rhode Island
Options Magazine
Safe Schools Act
Places: Rhode Island > Providence County > City of Providence > Providence
Topic(s): Anti-transgender violence
BIPOC
Gender markers
Hate crimes
Health care for LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ civil rights
LGBTQ+ demonstrations
LGBTQ+ discrimination
LGBTQ+ people of color
LGBTQ+ victims of bullying
Medical care
Non-binary people
Official documentation
Social workers
Trans men
Transgender activism
Transgender children
Transgender youth
Transitioning (Gender)
Resource Type: Audio
Text
Language: English
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