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Stephanie Sugars

Her reporting focuses on human rights, conflict, identity, political art & literature, and transitional justice. Her work has been published by Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, Balkan Diskurs, Bedford+Bowery, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Civic Ideas, Muftah, the New York Transatlantic, and the Journal of Political Inquiry.

Transgender Community Works to Overcome Identity Document Barriers

While updating identity documents is an arduous and expensive legal process, many non-binary (those who don’t identify as a man or woman) and transgender people have been motivated by November’s election results and are undertaking the process of updating their names, gender markers or both.