Audacia Ray

Nov 19, 2024 | timesunion.com | Liz Roberts |Audacia Ray

It’s incumbent upon us to try to build a society that allows survivors to heal, thrive and succeed, especially survivors from the communities that are marginalized. But New York’s domestic violence shelter system was designed to administer services and temporary housing to cisgender women — those whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth — and their children. Shelters typically accommodate a parent and one or more children, rather than individual adults.