Yesterday I expressed thankfulness for my city. Now, I want to express that I’m always thankful to be a U.S. citizen. But this year, I’m preoccupied. I’m preoccupied with the poor folks across our country who have real financial needs, trying to make ends meet, while our government is throwing money around like there’s no tomorrow.
I’ve been surfing the Internet over the weekend, researching various things occurring during this lame-duck period. Despite what you may think, they’re still a lot of problematic goings on.
For example, the Department of Health and Human Services spent roughly $390,000 for a team of academics at Drexel University to perform quantitative interviews with 300 transgender men across Mumbai and Dheli, India’s two largest cities.
What were the goals of this publicly funded research project? To inform the development and evaluationof an intervention to promote mental health for transgender people in India and to impact rapidly evolving transgender …