pillars is education. and we are already starting to welcome in interns, residents, different clinical students to be able to come here, be able to learn from us. and we hope to one day see a trans health phoenix, a trans health anchorage, a trans health richmond just like trans health northampton. i think you helped make clear to us things that some of us didn t even understand were issues. so thank you for the work you are doing at trans health northampton. we appreciate the time that you re taking to make us smarter about this. all right. go nowhere. we re just getting started on this sunday morning. the very latest about what you need to know about president biden s big spending bill and where it stands at this moment in the senate. another hour of velshi begins right now.
where people can be authentic and co-creative and generative. joining me now is the chief executive officer of trans health northampton. dallas, good to see you. thank you for being with us this morning. for those of us who don t understand, why is being out to all of your healthcare providers important? how does it affect someone s healthcare? sure. well, first and foremost, it just means the ability to show up and be authentic and be yourself and have a safe space where you can actually discuss your medical concerns. but to do that and to be able to be out to your provider, you have to feel safe, and it has to be an environment where you re able to be yourself. and that has downstream consequences on your physical health, what organs are assessed, for example, your mental health, the minority stress you might internalize, and whether you actually just feel safe enough to show up in primary care.
this at trans health northampton. how scalable is this? is there a standard of practice that you are developing or that has been developed that can be applied on a national level or best practices for doctors who don t run a trans-specific healthcare clinic but may be in other areas of medicine in which it s useful to understand what it is you ve learned from your patients and your experience? well, as a trans woman myself, i know one of the best ways to scale this is to hire transgender diverse individuals. but we started during the covid pandemic. we saw through covid. there was a massive expansion of access to healthcare through telehealth. and we were able to do that across new england. then throughout covid we actually had to restrict it based on changes to state laws and executive orders. so we are advocating to really work to change telehealth laws to expand access to gender diverse care, to gender affirming care. but also along with the advocacy, one of our core