1/ Nearly a quarter of all registered LGBTQ+ voters are Latinx. And political organizers are pushing to mobilize this voting bloc in critical swing states.
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3/ But advocates say those good faith efforts may not reach transgender Latinx voters. Many aren't seeking out historically White-majority LGBTQ+ organizations or frequenting the same spaces as cisgender Latinx Americans.https://bit.ly/2RAFAPb
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Latinx organization Voto Latino has registered more than 250,000 new voters this year.4/ The Trump presidency has also been particularly trying for transgender Latinx people. Apart from anti-trans policy, efforts to end asylum from Central and South American countries have been deadly for transgender migrants fleeing persecution.https://bit.ly/2RAFAPb
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5/ In May 2018, trans Honduran asylum seeker Roxsana Hernandez died in ICE custody. Just over a year later, trans El Salvadoran migrant Johana Medina León died upon her release from ICE custody.https://bit.ly/2RAFAPb
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6/ As one advocate said, those failures have profoundly impacted transgender Latinx people who feel that the federal government has abdicated responsibility for the deaths. "It lives in the psyche of our community."https://bit.ly/2RAFAPb
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7/7 Organizers want to turn that loss into "possibility." And that means finding ways to meet queer Latinx people where they are and identifying positive stories of trans individuals voting. "The win will be everybody that's prepared..."https://bit.ly/2RAFAPb
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