Tamira Burns
Echo Magazine - Transitioning a Non Profit

News stories about “illegal immigrants” have most likely taken over your Facebook newsfeed lately. They’re the stories of people in one country trying to establish a life in another one. At times, feeling like they don’t belong in either one.

What if you were one of these immigrants? But you were not only trying to find the right country but the right gender, too? How does someone who is in the United States without access to medical care get the attention they need to exist in the world as the gender with which they identify?

Echo Magazine - Transitioning a Non Profit

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Transgender Asylum Seekers Are Having A Hard Time Finding Sponsors In The US

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Transgender Asylum Seekers Are Having A Hard Time Finding Sponsors In The US

TIJUANA — Attorneys for transgender members of the caravan are rushing to find people willing to house them in the United States while their asylum cases play out in court, in hopes that the would-be immigrants won't have to wait for months in detention for their cases to be decided.