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Title: Transgender Community Health and Wellness Fair Breaks Down Borders
Post by: Natasha on April 25, 2008, 05:19:45 PM
Transgender Community Health and Wellness Fair Breaks Down Borders

Link (http://lavendermagazine.com/this-issue/news-and-politics/transgender-community-health-and-wellness-fair-breaks-down-borders/)
4/25/2008

"Community health is often the starting point—and the catalyst of
renewal—for community organizing that positively transforms society.
Think of the often-interrelated efforts to address HIV/AIDS,
environmental racism, or massive disparities in access to health care.
For many transgender and gender-variant people, engagement with
health-care institutions and professionals is central to physiological
health and, indeed, to overall well-being."