From North Carolina to New York City, thousands of people have already evacuated their homes to escape Hurricane Irene’s path. Among them are transgender people who, like others, don’t have anywhere else to turn to except for evacuation shelters.
Considering the unique difficulties transgender evacuees encounter, NCTE, Lambda Legal, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force have issued these simple guidelines to assist shelters in making their spaces safe for transgender people.
Download the resource and share it with evacuation shelters in your area.
NCTE has also created a Hurricane Preparedness Kit for transgender individuals who are displaced by storms. This resource includes information about what to do when preparing for a storm, and what to bring if you are evacuated.
If you are facing harassment or discrimination in emergency shelters and other evacuation programs because of your transgender status, please call the Lambda Legal Toll-Free National Help Desk at 866-542-8336. To file a discrimination complaint with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of Equal Rights, call 202-646-3535.
National Center for Transgender Equality's Blog 
State FEMA divisions follow different rules and can do the unthinkable. Document your case and keep ALL of your paperwork. There’s 180 day timeline that covers them. www,deguyz.webs.com involved the death of an end stage Alzheimer’s victim because her son/caretaker was gay. He is still trying to find counsel to vindicate his name. Mississippi was found to be guilty by an appeals board member after the fact. Just be safe and be alert.
Several transpeople from New Orleans were harassed in Houston, during Katrina, and our GLBT group claims on was arrested and put in the male population where she was sexually abused. I suspect amateurs are running many shelters and do not know how to handle gender variant people.
Lizzy
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Great article… I live in NY and i must say this whole Hurricane was overblown. It is calm and nice in NY
Bloomberg went a bit wild
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