Below are recent Calls to Action shared with the NAAFA community
NAAFA is not overseeing these initiatives. This is our effort to support fat community and activism. These opportunities have been vetted, but we ask that you proceed with caution, prioritizing your safety and wellbeing.
Type of Action: Virtual Feedback Opportunities
Deadline: August 20, 2025
Organization: The Eating Disorder Foundation
Link: Regulatory Advocacy
Description: If you followed EDF’s advocacy efforts in 2024, you may remember our victory in passing SB24-117 “Eating Disorder Treatment & Recovery Programs,” which brought eating disorder treatment facilities into Colorado’s regulatory systems and asked the Behavioral Health Administration to create regulations surrounding common experiences in treatment.
This success happened because of the powerful testimony of our partner organizations and of community members who shared their experiences with legislators. Now it’s time for the next step – sharing with regulators who will turn this legislation into action and make Colorado’s treatment landscape the best in the nation.
This is your opportunity to ask for regulations surrounding things like private weigh-ins and medical examinations; clothed weigh-ins; physical exercises during weigh-ins; gender-expansive restroom facilities; privacy in bathroom stalls; accommodations for sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and dietary ethics; qualified staff coverage; restraints and restrictions of physical movement; bed-based or room-based care; trauma-informed treatment; involuntary feeding tubes; and patient rights.
You can also find all the listening and rule feedback sessions, including Zoom links, in the Calendar under “Upcoming Training Dates” here, or on the EDF website calendar.
Additional Information: Even if can’t attend an in-person or virtual feedback session, BHA wants to hear from you! Email: cdhs_bharulefeedback@state.co.us and cdhs_bha_feedback@state.co.us.
Type of Action: Sign a pledge
Deadline: N/A
Organization: Whole Washington
Link: Whole Washington - Pledge to Sign
Description: We know that one of the worst places to experience body size discrimination is in the doctor's office and that finding healthcare professionals that work for you can be a huge challenge. With our current healthcare system, if you change or lose jobs, move, or leave the workforce, it means starting all over to find a new doctor. Whole Washington, a grassroots coalition of healthcare professionals and volunteers from across Washington, is working to change that. They have developed a bill that would form a Washington Health Trust (WHT), which would pay doctors/hospitals for their services directly, eliminating the involvement of insurance companies and their profit-driven motives to benefit shareholders. Doctors/hospitals would likely end up getting paid more and patients would pay less- AND everything with a billing code would be covered! Under the WHT, all doctors would be in your network so you could continue seeing the providers who work best for you. The Whole Washington legislation has also been reviewed by FLARE! and revised to ensure that the bill protects against weight discrimination.
If this work sounds exciting to you, sign the pledge letting them know you’ll sign the initiative when it’s time. If you want to do more, fill out the volunteer questionnaire, and Whole Washington's veteran volunteers will help you find the best way to get engaged and make a difference. Volunteering can be as easy as talking to your neighbors, or gym owner, or doctor's office, so don't be intimidated.
Additional Information: Even if you do not live in Washington State, you can sign the pledge to be kept informed of Whole Washington’s efforts.