Donnie Collins An American university fraternity has raised thousands of dollars to cover the cost of surgery for a transgender pledge. The Phi Alpha Tau fraternity at Emerson College in Boston has raised nearly $20,000 in donations for Donnie Collins, 20, a sophomore pledge seeking top surgery. He's told Out.comthat he had been paying for hormone therapy out of his own pocket since December 2011, as he was barred from using his mother's health insurance to cover it. "I'd go to the endocrinologist and pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket, because, of course, I didn't have insurance of my own." The indiegogo page for the campaign, set up by fraternity brothers, read: "Yesterday we were informed that one of our prospective brothers, a transgender female to male, was denied the opportunity to receive financial support from his insurance for top surgery. We are now trying to raise that money for him."
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First published: Thursday, 28th February 2013 - 6:32pm