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City of Greensboro to host Trans and Nonbinary Youth Summit on Saturday

The city of Greensboro’s Trans and Nonbinary Youth Summit is meant to be a safe space for trans youth and their parents to learn about the resources available in their community. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

The city of Greensboro’s Trans and Nonbinary Youth Summit is meant to be a safe space for trans youth and their parents to learn about the resources available in their community. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

The City of Greensboro’s Transgender Task Force is hosting its second annual summit on Saturday. 

Liz Lennon, the commissions administrator for the city’s Human Rights department, said it was important for the Transgender Task Force to focus specifically on youth for the summit this year.

"It's already a challenge for an adult, you know, with all of the ignorance, unfortunately, in this world that they have to face of just being who they are," Lennon said. "But you can imagine for our youth, you know, it's a lot of things that they are not even mentally developed yet to try to go up against. And so this is a day that they are in a safe space.”

Local LGBTQ organizations will be at the event to answer questions and provide information about recent legislation, and resources for things like medical care, mental health, and housing.

The summit will be held from 9 to 4 p.m. at Lindley Recreation Center. 

Amy Diaz covers education for WFDD in partnership with Report For America. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.

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