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Kayla Gore is Building a Future for Black Trans Women in the South—Literally

‘OUR OWN COMMUNITY’
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Kayla Gore plans to build a community of 20 homes for Black trans women in Memphis. Her award-winning activism is rooted in personal experience, and a determination to see change.