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“There Is No Such Thing As Single Issue Struggles”: Undocuqueer Students In Higher Education, Briceida Hernandez-Toledo, Anita Tijerina-Revilla

McNair Poster Presentations

• Immigration remains a controversial topic dominating domestic and international conversations about borders, migrants, and human rights.

• The undocuqueer movement and identity evolved from the immigrant rights movement of the early 2000s

• Undocuqueer immigrants are those who identify as undocumented and queer

• According to the Perez (2014), approximately 80,000 undocumented teens turn 18 every year, with 65,000 graduating from high school (cited by the Department of Education 2015, p. 3).

• only 54% of undocumented teens earn a high school degree, compared to 82% of their peers who earn it. • Extant research on this topic is …

Health Care Limitations Available To Transgender Teenagers: A Systematic Review Of The Literature, Yessenia Madrigal, Michael Curtis

McNair Poster Presentations

This systematic review of literature explores the current academic literature that is available in regards to transgender teenagers, their healthcare options and the services that are available to these teenagers and any obstacles they face when seeking and obtaining healthcare services. This review specifically focuses on transgender teenagers and their family’s experiences and the lack of support given to them at different levels in different healthcare facilities. For this review a total of 29 articles were included in the final literature review and were categorized into different areas: the detrimental effects of non-accepting parents are explained healthcare options available, the …