A Refuge For Homeless Transgender People Is In The Works In New Orleans

The American South, The Tennessean
Tue, 09/22/2020 - 5:37am

A group of advocates in New Orleans have raised more than $400,000 to open the city's first home for transgender and gender non-confirming people.

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