This Is What Happens When Your Insurance Company Rejects You, But Your Friends Don’t

Have you heard the story about the transgender student who joined a fraternity? Earlier on Upworthy we told you about Donnie Collins, a student at  Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.  When his insurance policy turned down his request for transgender surgery, Donnie’s fraternity brothers started a wildly successful fundraising campaign. Total strangers pitched in, then…

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