Feds Spend $453,592 Giving Financial Support to Transgender Women
Posted By Elizabeth Harrington On January 24, 2019 @ 5:00 am In Issues | No Comments
The National Institutes of Health is spending over $450,000 to provide transgender women of color financial tips and "gender transition supports."
Virginia Commonwealth University began the project last year, which studies "economically disadvantaged male-to-female" transgender individuals in Richmond, Va., and St. Louis, Mo.
"Transgender women (TGW) face persistent discrimination and structural disadvantages including high rates of unemployment, unstable housing, poverty, and dramatically elevated rates of HIV," according to the grant for the study. "The proposed research, using a randomized experimental design, seeks to develop and test an integrated microeconomic intervention, and to assess the feasibility and efficacy of the intervention to improve the financial status of TGW and to reduce participation in high-risk income-generation strategies."
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