TORONTO — A Toronto university has launched a scholarship to help support racialized transgender students in honour of a young woman who died several years ago. About 200 friends and family of Sumaya Dalmar have raised money and organized the Ryerson University scholarship, which will be given to its first recipient this fall. Dalmar’s friend Lali Mohamed says he hopes the scholarship will grow in the future to help trans people of colour overcome barriers. She is exactly who she was meant to be.”Ryerson sociology professor Alan Sears said the award will help students in a community that has been traditionally marginalized. “I think the award will not only benefit individual trans students of colour, but will also focus attention on the contributions of racialized trans communities,” Sears said in a statement.

Source: National Post March 29, 2018 17:15 UTC