Puerto Rico Medicaid programme now includes trans healthcare
Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program, which assists those who are not able to afford healthcare, will now cover transition related care.
Michellyn Ramos Vargas
Trans woman beaten and stabbed in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican trans woman Nicole López, 33, was hospitalised on Thursday 8 October after being beaten and stabbed in the latest incident of violence against the trans community on the island.
31st trans person killed in the US
Felycya Harris, a 33-year-old black trans woman, is the 31st member of the trans community to have been killed so far in 2020.
Trans woman killed in Puerto Rico
Michellyn Ramos Vargas, 35, is the sixth known trans person to have been murdered in Puerto Rico this year.