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With the LGBTQ population’s annual spending power estimated in the hundreds of billions, companies don’t want to get left behind. “They’re all very competitive,” says one marketing consultant.
A scarcity of physicians with special training in the needs of one trans man left him giving his doctor guidance on his own testosterone dosage. “There’s a huge online community,” he says, “and luckily I knew from YouTube and Facebook what was typical.”
The program coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective in Brooklyn, N.Y., talks about the effort to foster community wellness among queer and trans people of color contending with police violence and criminalization.
A transgender Dalit in central India has become the country’s first transgender to be elected mayor. Also this week, House Republicans are renewing their effort to ban abortion after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and anti-choice efforts continue across the U.S.
A new report on violence experienced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, transgender and queer identified documents its pervasiveness in the U.S.
Seattle’s City Council has approved an increase in the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. Also this week, more horrific assaults against women and girls in India.
Regulatory reform is expected to gradually improve housing safety for transgender detainees. At the same time the Department of Homeland Security is cutting beds and exploring programs that move at-risk people out of locked-in facilities and into houses and hotels.
During a tour of the only housing unit that ICE sets aside for GBT detainees to live together, one detainee in Santa Ana praised conditions. Lawyers and other advocates are still watching to see if guards’ behavior improves after a sensitivity training this summer. The third of four stories.
Mistreatment of transgender detainees described in government documents match the anecdotal accounts in dozens of interviews. One lawyer says she has never met a transgender detainee who has not been subject to some sort of harassment. The second of four stories.
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous places to be transgender. But as lawmakers try to change that, transgender women who are deported confront a social backlash that makes their homeland more fearful than ever. The first of four stories.