worse for younger transgender people who feel isolated and unequal.”

Murray will turn 23 on election day in May, making her also one of the youngest candidates standing for the regional assembly. She faces an uphill struggle to be elected, with Sinn Féin still dominating west Belfast and a new leftwing force, People Before Profit, also on course to take a seat in the multi-seat constituency. The Greens have one representative in the current assembly, its party leader, Steven Agnew.

Murray stressed her candidacy was also about much more than LGBT issues and that the Greens represent to her the “new kind of politics” she believes Northern Ireland needs.

She added: “I’m not just making history for being the first ever transgender election candidate anywhere on this island, I’m the firstarea in our state you might get help, but if you battle it in different area, it’s a felony crime and you go to prison.” — Kris Steele, former speaker of the Oklahoma House

The debate is pitting district attorneys and law enforcement agencies responsible for prosecuting these cases against people like Candida Ulibarri, whose methamphetamine addiction followed years of repressed trauma — and clashed with the judicial system.

It started for Ulibarri when she was 8 years old. Her father, who was prone to violence, introduced her to marijuana and alcohol. As a child, she was molested by friends of the family and said when she told her mother, she would blame Ulibarri for “dressing provocatively.”

“It was some shorts; little, tiny, beige, flowery shorts with fringe and a beige