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<POC@IOD>LIVES 2015 TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER’S <POC@IOD>LIVES 2015 It will be a struggle…But there’s nothing worthwhile that’s not worth óghting Ior $@$@.>?JI<G? RQ IDVKLRQ ğHUFHQHVV DQG ğJKWLQJ UHYROXWLRQV | | | TRANS HEALTH: ON THE RISE GET FRESH WITH TLC YOUTH ON THE LEADING EDGEOG>OGOG > | <POC@IOD>-*7&4 < VOLUNTEERPOPOCC@IOOD>D SPOTLIGHT:-*7*7&4| ARE YOU 1 NEXT? Welcome to Authentic Lives. We’ve made this issue into an interactive PDF, which means it’s packed full of extra content. Interactive PDFs are best viewed full-screen, and the functionality isn’t usually supported in your browser - so that means for our extra features to work, you’ll have to save this file and then open it, rather than just viewing it in your browser (such as Safari). We hope you’ll find all these goodies easy to navigate, but here’s a quick walkthrough of what you can expect. On the contents page, you’ll notice the links highlight when your cursor passes them. 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Mat dos Santos Rose Hayes Features Andre LeBlanc -immy Loyceb Jacob Richards Evelyn Rios Theresa Witherspoon Ƃ , - *ers«ectiÛe\ ÛolÛing "ur 6ision 3 STAFF: Flor Bermudez Detention Project Director Sasha Buchert Staff Attorney Cecilia Chung Senior Strategist C. 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