Currey Cook

Last year, Lambda Legal client Catherine, a transgender young woman in the California foster care system, faced eviction from her group home because of her HIV status. After Catherine learned of her diagnosis, she informed the group home staff. Administrators informed her they didn’t work with HIV positive youth and weren’t “medically equipped” to care for her, even though her treatment consisted of only one pill a day. Even though administrators wanted her out, Catherine did not want to leave the group home as it would have forced her to leave an affirming school she loved and move to her […]