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Title: Trans drop-in center ‘swamped’ by youth
Post by: LostInTime on August 03, 2007, 02:02:57 PM
Washington Blade (http://www.washblade.com/2007/8-3/news/localnews/11002.cfm)
LOU CHIBBARO JR
Friday, August 03, 2007

But in the past two months, younger clients like 19-year-old Nannaboo Mack, a transgender woman who said she learned about the center from the "streets," have descended on the facility in large numbers, stretching its resources and threatening to overextend its budget.

"We're getting swamped," said Brian Watson, Transgender Health Empowerment's director of programs.