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Title: New health guide released for transgender men and masculine-identified women of
Post by: Natasha on August 19, 2011, 11:14:26 PM
New health guide released for transgender men and masculine-identified women of color

http://feministing.com/2011/08/19/new-health-guide-released-for-transgender-men-of-color/ (http://feministing.com/2011/08/19/new-health-guide-released-for-transgender-men-of-color/)
8/19/11
By Vanessa

Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois serves as an exciting new tool for empowerment, as transgender men and women on the masculine spectrum continue to face a health sector in which they are largely invisible. For people of color in these communities, who are often uninsured, these challenges are often compounded; high levels of unemployment, discrimination in public service delivery, and income inequality are the norm, not the exception.