Our Commitment to Transgender Persons
Post date: Apr 4, 2015 10:36:28 PM
PREVENTION IS CARE
Michele here I am female and my sexual orientation is straight carrying the advantages of being born this way.
#GOMOJO
#dtlv
#GENDERJUSTICENV
Call To All FOR ACTION for OUR Gender Justice Community in Downtown Las Vegas.
#Idonethis for #recordsetting love for my friends many who have experienced horrific violence, family abandonment and left to survive by sex work, vulnerable to violence and 48% more likely to be infected with HIV/AIDS
GOMOJO has a goal to deliver happiness with equal rights and justice for all people to come out to learn, work, live, play out their lives and live up to their God/Universal given potentials. EVERY DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS #DTLV get educated and understand the MEANING OF BORN THIS WAY each other treat each individual equal regardless of your name, rank, age, sexual orientations, preferences, race, etc.
We believe in a non binary and that it is not about being male or female it is about being HUMAN and now we have a chance to change the lives of amazing people.
CHANGE OUR MINDS , CHANGE OUR COMMUNITY, CITY, COUNTRY
AND WORLD!!!
CULTURAL COMPETENCY TRAINING IS A MUST FOR ALL GENDER JUSTICE
For the RECORD
this was the very first Downtown Las Vegas Transgender community march/walk from the Center LV to the City Hall. I had the opportunity to walk and talk with MANY of the people who identify as transgender.
GOMOJO has a mission to do all possible to SAFELY bring the transgender women out to explore all the equal opportunities and experiences the www.downtownproject.com is doing to hand #deliverhappiness to the people of Las Vegas. The people who are leading this movement are AMAZING truly have a grasp on what it means to be an AMERICAN with equal rights and justice for all, the importance of cultural competency.
MOJO is dedicated to implementing our business strategy surrounded by love and science based evidence CHANGE is much needed fro the equality which lead us to desperately needed for equal rights and GENDER JUSTICE for all. We believe we have a chance to CHANGE OUR COMMUNITY, CITY, COUNTRY AND WORLD!!!
I THINK WE CAN DO BETTER FOR OUR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE GIVING THEM MORE THAN JUST HOPE TO GROW. LET'S START BY GIVING FREEDOM FROM FEAR!TRANSGENDER AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO COME OUT AND LEARN, WORK, LIVE AND PLAY
based on a number of factors including identified sex on documents, e.g.,birth certificates, driver’s licenses, determination by medical
personnel/prison or corrections staff, or lack of comfort/ internalized transphobia by the individual of their transgender identity
HIV Prevention efforts addressing the complexity of gender will be aided in the future by enhanced HIV surveillance data. HIV data collection ty building for public health staff and data collection staff on transgender issues. Efforts to understand the morbidity of HIV among Nevada’s Transgender community are timely and important for prevention efforts, especially when considering that national studies have shown that between 12% to 28% of transgender persons are HIV positive and more than half of black male to female transgender persons tested positive for the virus (Keatley and Bockting 2008)n and reporting is in the process of incorporating both institutional changes. For example, modifications made to the current counseling and testing forms as of 1/2012 and e-HARS forms that not only identify sex at birth, but also current gender identity, made concurrently with education and capacity
The Nevada State Health Division and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Community Health Sciences in collaboration with the Advocates for Transgender Health (ATH), a program of Gender Justice Nevada, and the Transgender Allihttp://www.nvtranshealth.com/es Group (TAG) are conducting an online study to better understand the health needs of the Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming community in Nevada. The res
ults of this study will help in the development of Trans services in Nevada.
To be eligible for this survey you need to identify as Transgender or Gender Non-Conforming in some way, have lived or worked in Nevada in the past 6 months, and be 18 years or older.
The online survey will take about 30 minutes. It is completely anonymous. There is no way to connect your name or identity to your survey responses.