Covering the Transgender Community

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Covering the Transgender Community

http://niemanreports.org/articles/covering-the-transgender-community/

Nieman Reports/By Sara Morrison January 12, 2016

"In March of 2014, Jorge Rivas, Fusion's national affairs correspondent, was working on a story about undocumented immigrants when he heard about a transgender woman being held in a men's detention center. "She was stuck in a detention center surrounded by men, often experiencing the same type of harassment she was fleeing in the first place," Rivas says."