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March 2023 voluMe 4 issue 11
March 3, 2023 voLuME 4 iSSuE 11
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National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day P5 OpINION
Why Ukraine’s Fight is Our Fight Too P4
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ConVersaTions WiTh niCoLe Drag Queens & LGBTQ+ History P7 hoUsTon, We haVe a proBLeM Loving Him Was Red P10
Big Mike & Friends Featuring Ariel Fantasia P8 Trans TaLk WiTh Connor Trans Day of Visibility, and More! P11
LiFe Beyond Therapy Twink Death P9 QUeer parenTing What Can Children Learn P12
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City Attorney News: Improving your Access to Public Records P18
On Stage P15
San Diego Man Sentenced to Life P19
Artist Profile: Featuring Danny Warhole P16
Willie Gray Gets 11 years for Manslaughter of Homeless Man P19
A Note from Toni: March is Women’s History Month P6
Assemblyman Ward News: Important Bills being Introduced P18
Powerful The XIXth steps up to the podium at The Old Globe P14
COUrT News
MCC Vandal Remains in Jail P13
THe 19TH aNNUal TraNsgeNDer DaY Of eMpOwerMeNT our LIfe, our fuTure By cesar a reyes
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he first annual Transgender Day of Empowerment took place in 2004 at the San Diego LGBTQ Center and 19 years later planning has begun for 2023’s celebration. A Day where the Transgender community and their allies pause to celebrate and reflect on how far the Trans community has come. We had the honor to be invited to the organizing committee meeting on a Thursday evening at the San Diego Pride Office.
UC saN DIegO’s geNDer HealTH prOgraM A Q&A WITH ProgrAm CoordInATor rAI KHAmIsA
UC
By cesar a reyes
San Diego Gender Health Program is blazing trails and providing much needed help to the community. We sat down with Gender Health Program Coordinator Rai Khamisa, LCSW (They/Them/Theirs) for a very informative Q & A.
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onnor Maddocks has been doing advocacy and civil rights work in the San Diego Transgender community for the past 20 years. He is the lead facilitator of the San Diego FTM-SO Discussion group, is an active guest speaker to various organizations, businesses and colleges on Transgender issues. He has done extensive trainings on all aspects of the Transgender Community as well as workshops for the community on legal name and gender changes. He is a member of the Community Leadership Council of San Diego, Chair of the San Diego Day of Remembrance and planning committee member of the Day of Empowerment.
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Please tell us about UCSD’s Gender Health Program. How is the organization connected to the medical system and the university in general? Does the organization work with the LGBT Resource Center offered to university students or are they completely separate? UC San Diego’s Gender Health Program specifically serves the hospital system to ensure that patients who are seeking gender affirming care have a centralized model with which to work. Gender affirming care can be overwhelming to access, between finding the right providers, navigating insurance and determining pre-/post-operative requirements. Our program helps patients navigate these areas with more ease and direction so that patients can focus on what they need, NOT on how they are going to meet those medical needs. Although we are not directly connected with the LGBT Resource Center on campus, we partner closely with them and our counterparts on the university campus to ensure continuity of care for those who may move their care over to the health system side or when they need services that only the health system provides.
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