Showing posts with label transgender women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transgender women. Show all posts

12 November 2017

06 September 2017

Spelman College: Transgender Women Can Now Attend Historically Black School

Christina Coleman
Essence


Spelman College (Atlanta)

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24 July 2017

Drug interaction concerns may negatively affect HIV treatment adherence among transgender women

Judith Lavelle
National Institutes of Health


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please press:  www.nih.gov

ezs note:  From the time you're born until the time you croak, National Institutes of Health will touch your life positively at least once.  For pennies as opposed to dollars. (maybe hundreds of dollars)   Call your Congressperson you want full funding for this worthy endeavor. Call www.house.gov to be directed.

27 June 2017

Transgender women among those targeted by north Austin sex assault suspect

Andy Jechow
kxan


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ezs note: If you live in the greater Austin, Texas area - especially in the Georgian Drive/Georgian Acres area - and you have any information about these crimes, please call the police at 512-974-5095.   Thanks.

02 April 2017

A Day Out Leaves Two Transgender Women Living in Fear

David Gonzalez
The New York Times


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18 March 2017

This year on track to be deadliest for transgender women — but activists are fighting back

Sarah Lazare
Salon


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ezs note:  One thing that transgender women and men might want to try is self-defense classes.  (See the previous day's article, "Kelly Herron slams group using her attack in anti-transgender bathroom campaign".)  Yeah, it might be nice to have the police around, but we must be realistic.  Some larger cities and towns offer classes at a very low or no cost to you.

06 March 2017

Activists say two Pakistani transgender women beaten to death in Saudi Arabia

Mehreen Zahra-Malik
Reuters


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ezs note: You can contact the embassy in the United States by writing an e-note to the Ambassador.  Please keep it polite yet firm. We do not wish to make these situations even worse.  In other countries, check what the e-mail might be for that country.  (I found Wikipedia to be helpful.)

02 March 2017

2 Transgender Women Killed in New Orleans Within 48 Hours: Police

Melissa Chan
Time


Chyna Gibson and Ciara McElveen

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ezs note:  Sadly, yet another transgender woman has been murdered.  Her name was Ciara McElveen.  While I have no doubt that members of the New Orleans Police Department do their work very hard, it all seems so bootless.  Transgender women do have a right to attend  concert, go to a bar, restaurant, or coffeeshop, or just enjoy an evening stroll without suffering the, ahem, annoyance of being raped or murdered.  Can we see what might be done more proactively?  Thanks.

10 January 2017

Transgender Women Fear Abuse in Immigration Detention

Fernanda Santos
The New York Times


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18 October 2016

He Said No One Would Care if He Shot Transgender Women. He Was Wrong.

Katie Zavadski
The Daily Beast


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ezs note:  Let's just hope that Mr. Thomas is sent away for a long, long, long time.  My sincere condolences to the families.