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Interview with Jenna Rapues

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An interview with Jenna Rapues, MPH, a Filipina trans woman, activist, and leader in public and transgender health in government, research, academic and public health institutions. She lives in San Francisco. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director of Gender Health SF, a program of the San Francisco Department of Public Health that provides access to gender affirming medical care to uninsured transgender adults living in the city. Prior to her work with SFDPH, Rapues was the Interim Director of UCSF's Center of Excellence for Transgender Health (CoE.) She additionally is a Co-Chair and board member of Openhouse, a housing and support organization for LGBTQ seniors in San Francisco. In this oral history interview, Rapues discusses her upbringing and experiences of migration as a child, her early politicization and organizing with other queer and trans people of color, her work with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and her thoughts on and experiences of trans health. Specifically, she discusses structural issues in trans health care including barriers to access, lack of data and research, and hostile health care environments, the radical changes in trans health care since the early 2000s, her thoughts on the world of HIV health care, WPATH, and USPATH, social determinants of health, and violence against Black and brown trans women, and the impacts of COVID and the 2020 uprisings on her work.

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