Jaye Watts interview

Interview with Jaye Watts by Selene Means. Jaye Watts 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. This interview was created as part of a series of LGBTQIA interviews in a project managed by Dr. Virginia Thomas and funded through an Equity Action grant from the Rhode Island Foundation.