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Sitting on the sprawling Mid-City porch of Casa Zulma, an interim housing facility for formerly homeless transgender women, Coral Dawn casually ticked off the many reasons she has no intention of getting vaccinated for COVID-19.
She hates shots. She’s 53 years old and healthy. She doesn’t go out much. She’s skeptical because the coronavirus keeps mutating.
Then came a mirthless laugh.
“The medical community, as a group, has always made things worse for trans girls,” Dawn said, shaking her head. “So, yeah, I certainly don’t have any affection for the medical community.”
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This kind of vaccine hesitancy in the transgender community is common, yet, even on International Transgender Day of Visibility, which was on Wednesday this year, it has been invisible.
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