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Title: Why You Need To Get Behind the Transgender Equality Movement
Post by: Xenguy on August 25, 2014, 04:09:21 PM
Why You Need To Get Behind the Transgender Equality Movement
David Heitz- Aug 24, 2014

"In an era where antiretroviral medications can keep people with the disease alive into their seventies and beyond, and a once daily pill can prevent those at risk from contracting it, stigma has remained HIV's closest accomplice.

So it really is no surprise that groups buried in multiple layers of stigma – minorities, the economically disadvantaged, injection drug users – remain some of HIV's last strongholds.

But none are more stigmatized then transgender people, who often fall into one or all of the above categories on top of being a sexual minority that few people still understand to this day. Or want to."

More: http://www.imstilljosh.com/why-you-need-to-get-behind-the-transgender-equality-movement/