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How LA Burning Has Been for This Angeleno Transgender Woman
The Santa Ana winds that set off the Los Angeles fires are expected to return next week. That’s unfortunate, because the latest time the city has been world news has been because it’s indeed been burning. I’ve been in Los Angeles first and foremost to access gender-affirming care.
Being straight-up with you, it’s not been easy to be a transgender woman in a city on fire.
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I lost my weekly conversation with my children Ashtyn & Luke because of the fires. (It lasted with Ashtyn for only a handful of and not with Luke at all. My conversations with Ashtyn last on average for around an hour.) I was communicating them on my phone (via Google Meet). Reception probably was that bad due to smoke and ash.
(The two interfering factors probably came from the Eaton Fire. I was in Westlake, Los Angeles at the time. Eaton was the closest fire to Westlake other than the Sunset Fire, which didn’t exist for as remotely as long as Eaton. The Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires remain after Los Angeles saw as many as seven fires, to my understanding.)