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Since nearly dying, I’ve redoubled my efforts to help others in my community.” She came back to Washington in 2013, where Seattle doctors saved her life. Just a week later, Saint said she was drugged, raped, and infected with HIV. She participated in the island’s very first Gay Pride March and assisted a few reluctant and scared Hawaiian locals with getting tested for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In 2012, during the first year of her gender transition, Saint spent a year in Hilo, Hawaii. Saint explains, “I don’t have much, but I really try to help many in our community. “If someone’s in trouble, even if she is struggling and weak, she will open her home to them when they need it,” Azure said. “I’ve done that four times now,” Saint said. She often provides food and a place to sleep. Other visitors at Saint’s home include women who are living on the unforgiving city streets. One in five transgender people in the United States has been discriminated against when seeking a home, and more than one in ten have been evicted from their homes because of their gender identity. Saint flew to Pennsylvania to help gather her belongings and drive her 2,500 miles back to Seattle.Īccording to the National Center for Transgender Equality, family rejection, discrimination, and violence have contributed to homelessness within the LGBTQ community. Another housemate is a woman who Saint traveled across the country to rescue last year after she came out to her Amish community as queer and transgender. Saint helps her friends clean up the charred mess that remained after a kitchen fire.