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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Article title: Moka Dawkins
Article Evaluation: This is a non-existent Wikipedia article on a trans woman freedom fighter who is an advocate for Toronto-based sex workers
Sources: Badaloo, A.-L. (2022). Moka Dawkins – trans pride ambassador. Pride Toronto. https://www.pridetoronto.com/honoured_position/moka-dawkins-trans-pride/

Article title: LGBTQ People in Prison
Article Evaluation: There is a section explaining transgender issues in prison that should be expanded. There should be more information shared from a Canadian and intersectional perspective.
Sources: Oparah, Julia C. 2012. “Feminism and the (Trans)gender Entrapment of Gender Nonconforming Prisoners.” UCLA Women's Law Journal 18 (2): 239-272

Article title: Homelessness Amongst LGBTQ Youth in Canada
Article Evaluation: There is an article for the United States, but not one for Canada. The article would explain the research showing that LGBTQ youth are more at risk for homelessness, the reasons multiple researchers have found, and what is being done in Canada to prevent the issue.
Sources: Josephson, G. & Wright, A. (2000). Ottawa GLBT wellness project: Literature review and survey instruments. Retrieved from the Pink Triangle Services website: http://www.pinktriangle.org/wellness/main.html

Article title: Transgender Health Care
Article Evaluation: Expanding the Canadian Section to include barriers to health care access
Sources: Tordoff, D. M., Wanta, J. W., Collin, A., Stepney, C., Inwards-Breland, D. J., & Ahrens, K. (2022). Mental health outcomes in transgender and nonbinary youths receiving gender-affirming care. JAMA Network Open, 5(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0978

Article title: Violence Against Transgender people
Article Evaluation: Expansion of Police and Incarceration section of article to include more about brutality and discrimination
Sources: Carpenter, L. F. and Marshall, R. B. (2017). Walking while trans: Profiling of transgender women by law enforcement, and the problem of proof. William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, 24(1), 5-38.