Hello there. It's Amara. Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans

stories to save trans lives. Well, I hope that you had a good Thanksgiving holiday

in whatever way you choose to spend and mark the day.

Of course, this year's Thanksgiving was much harder for so many in our community because of the attack just days before on the Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

I know that for many of you, it brought up traumatic experiences that you've been through.

Of course, the fact that two out of the five victims were trans also adds to the stress and the pain and the anguish that so many people are feeling.

I too feel it and felt it.

And I hope that you all are doing whatever you need to do to take care of yourselves.

There's so many resources in our community to do so, both local and national,

and I hope that you are taking advantage of those.

I spent a lot of time doing press around this during the Thanksgiving holiday,

which you can find at Translash Media and my own social media pages.

So we won't be taking time to do that here, doing this program.

But just know that everyone here at

Translash is holding each of you in our hearts and want you to be careful.

December 1 is World AIDS Day, and HIV AIDS, even though it is not spoken about greatly in the media much anymore,

continues to be a relevant topic for the world, our country, and for our community.

There are 1.2 million people living with HIV AIDS in the United States,

and more than 1 out of 10 don't know it.

With respect to trans people, trans women are 49 times more likely to be HIV positive than the general population,

but black trans women having the highest rates of HIV AIDS positivity at nearly one out of four.

And we have to remember that HIV AIDS has killed more than 35 million people worldwide.

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