Aug 18 2011
Kimberley McLeod, GLAAD's Communities of African Descent Media Field Strategist
New Health Guide Breaks Barriers for Transgender Men of Color
http://glaadblog.org/2011/08/18/new-health-guide-breaks-barriers-for-transgender-men-of-color/The Brown Boi Project, a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and allies committed to transforming privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving racial and gender justice, released a groundbreaking health guide created by and for transgender men of color and masculine-identified women of color. Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois serves as a "tool for empowerment, as transgender men and women on the masculine spectrum continue to face a health sector in which they are largely invisible."
The health guide is a much needed resource full of personal essays, informative charts, medical articles, useful illustrations, and compelling photography that cover topics such as depression, safe sex practices, parenting, diet, gender affirming surgery and more. People of color in these communities often do not have access to health insurance and experience high levels of unemployment, discrimination in public service delivery, and income inequality.
