By Ta'Leah Van Sistine, community reporter/editor Despite a mid-December vote that put the University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Student Association (SSA) on record “Supporting Transgender Healthcare,” the next steps in this situation remain unclear. SSA senators voted 22-0 in support of legislation favoring a decrease in the time that transgender health care and gender affirming care won’t be available for new patients at UW-Stout’s Student Health Services (SHS). That lapse seems likely to start on Monday (Jan. 3), when a contract begins with Prevea Health to replace SHS as the health care provider on the UW-Stout campus. The university’s budget for the fiscal year that ends on June 30 contains a total of $898,268 to operate the Student Health Services. The contract with Prevea calls for UW-Stout to pay the health care provider an estimated base fee of $698,140, a figure that will undoubtedly vary because it was calculated on the basis of $134 per current student FTE. That information was provided by Kristi Krimpelbein, chief of staff for UW-Stout’s chancellor’s office, in response to a freedom of information request filed by the CVPost under Wisconsin’s open records law. To read more about this complex situation, please click on the headline.