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This Transgender Day of Visibility, Choose to Fight

Last month, my mother-in-law turned 80. We had a party, spent time with people we don’t see nearly enough, shared amazing food, and celebrated a woman who makes a point of telling her loved ones what they mean to her and how special we are. One of her recent messages urged, “love one another. In this moment in history, spend effort on kindness. And, fragile as it may feel to do so, let yourself lean back into the love that surrounds you.”  This moment is incredibly hard. Each day brings a new,...

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I received a letter from a prisoner a few weeks ago that still haunts me. The prisoner, a transgender woman of color, tried to remove her own testicles after she was repeatedly denied medical care for her gender dysphoria. While this might seem extreme to people outside of prison, these incidents of “self-surgery” happen regularly in prisons and jails across the country. There are thousands of transgender prisoners housed in correctional facilities who need basic medical care, protection from...

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