In the U.S., the average life expectancy of a cisgender woman is 80.1 years, but for transgender women, it may be much lower. There is data to indicate that theaverage lifespan of trans women of color is just 35 years — which is what moved Ashlee Marie Preston, a transgender woman of color who recently turned 34, to use her birthday to launch the #ThriveOver35 social media campaign, which she told The Glow Up is “intended to help black trans women reimagine themselves somewhere other than an open casket.”
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