Madison seemed a welcoming place, a liberal island in a largely conservative state — but one that only narrowly tipped for Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The University of Wisconsin’s campus there has an active LGBTQ center, and the UW Health System is building a program catering to trans patients.“I just sort of expected they’re going to be reasonable about this,” Vetens said, “and I guess I learned a bit of a lesson about naiveté.”
Office of Strategic Communication