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Los profesionales de la industria de la belleza se encuentran ahora en una posición única para identificar y apoyar a las sobrevivientes. Una nueva ley estatal en Rochester, Nueva York requiere que las personas en la industria de la belleza se sometan a capacitación en violencia doméstica y agresión sexual. La capacitación incluiría cómo ayudar a las víctimas en situaciones peligrosas y proporcionar recursos para buscar ayuda. |
"Cada día, más facultades y universidades cancelan las clases presenciales debido a la amenaza. La mayoría mantiene abiertos los dormitorios y los comedores por ahora, pero un número creciente ha pedido a los estudiantes que hagan las maletas y se vayan del campus indefinidamente. la fracción significativa de estudiantes que dependen de su escuela para sus necesidades básicas: comida, vivienda, ayuda financiera, seguro médico y trabajos en el campus. Y, a medida que las universidades cambian al aprendizaje en línea durante el resto del semestre, no todos pueden pagar lo necesario portátiles y banda ancha. |
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El artículo aborda el tema del toque de queda impuesto por la gobernadora Wanda Vázquez Garced para prevenir la propagación del COVID-19. Las organizaciones que trabajan con víctimas de violencia de género expresaron su preocupación ya que entienden que durante este período podría haber un repunte en estos casos de violencia intrafamiliar. |
Human Rights Campaign Foundation publicó A National Epidemic: Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence in the United States in 2019.Informa al menos 22 personas transgénero y personas no conformes con el género asesinadas en 2019. El informe también pide la expansión de los recursos comunitarios y programas para abordar la epidemia.El informe se produce pocos días después de que la Oficina Federal de Investigaciones publicara los datos de delitos de odio de 2018, que encontraron un aumento alarmante del 34 por ciento en los ataques violentos basados en el odio contra personas transgénero entre 2017 y 2018. |
Este artículo examina brevemente que la comunidad LGBTQ en los EE. UU., Junto con muchas comunidades en todo el mundo, enfrentará desafíos únicos. En muchos casos, los miembros LGBTQ tienen mayor exposición y riesgo de complicaciones económicas y de salud que las personas no LGBTQ debido a los tipos de trabajos que tienen más probabilidades de tener, debido a sus experiencias con la pobreza y la falta de licencia remunerada, y porque de las disparidades de salud que tienen en comparación con las personas no LGBTQ |
"LGBTQ+ people experience health disparities. Barriers to care cause us to be less likely to get medical care; and mean we're more likely to have compromised health in general. Health disparities magnify the impact COVID-19 could have on us. |
"As COVID-19 sweeps the world, hundreds of thousands of people have contracted the virus, and every community has been affected. The LGBTQ community in the U.S. — along with many communities around the globe — will face unique challenges due to its economic and health care situations." |
"Female sex workers, MSM, and transgender women—collectively referred to as key populations (KPs)—are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV, yet little is known about the violence they face, its gender-based origins, and responses to GBV. The purpose of this study was to understand the nature and consequences of GBV experienced, to inform HIV policies and programming and to help protect KPs’ human rights." |
Yampi Méndez Arocho is a 19 year old transgender male. |
Bad Bunny paid tribute to a murdered transgender woman on the Jimmy Fallon Show. |
"We're really concerned because we know that whenever there's a health issue, the pre-loaded issues in our community create an issue for us,” stated Scout, the deputy director of the National LGBT Cancer Network. He addresses the open letter that more than 100 organizations sent to medical groups and the news media stating that LGBT people are at greater risk from the novel COVID-19 due to other social and medical issues that affect the LGBT community. |
Due to the increased vulnerability within the LGBTQ community this article highlights relevant resources to those affected. These sources are for people living with and those affected by HIV/AIDS, people living with and those affected by liver disease, including Hepatitis, people living with and those affected by cancer, the African-American community, and the Latinx community. |
The National Center for Transgender Equality emphasizes the importance for trans people to have an action plan amid the current health crisis. This article discusses the risk factors that the LGBTQ community faces and how to create the needed action plan. It also provides a variety resources including a list of medical providers, resources for housing and mental health. |
This article raises the question and need for conversation about transphobic hate crimes in Puerto Rico. They cite the murder of Alexa, a transgender woman who was using the women’s bathroom. Her death caused outrage and many activists have spoken out. Artist Bad Bunny paid tribute to her on the Jimmy Fallon show. Transgender and non conforming people are at a higher risk for homelessness and a higher risk for violence. |
"A homeless transgender woman was brutally murdered in Puerto Rico early Monday. Pedro Julio Serrano, founder of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, a Puerto Rican LGBTQ advocacy groups, confirmed media reports that said the victim, who was known as Alexa, was killed in a park in Toa Baja, a municipality that is about 15 miles west of San Juan. Serrano told the Washington Blade that police on Sunday night responded to a report Alexa was “peeping” on people in a public restroom. David Begnaud of CBS News reported the person who filed the complaint declined to press charges against Alexa after they learned she was homeless." |