As anti-trans laws spread, Black trans women continue building networks of community and support.

Jeynce Poindexter was 14 when home stopped feeling like home. Her mother could not accept that she was transgender, Poindexter said, and staying would have meant negotiating an identity she already knew was not negotiable. So she left. What came next for Poindexter was survival, then structure. She found chosen family who embraced her as a Black trans woman. Years later she would…

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