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Analysis of a Second Scholarly Source The second scholarly source that I chose to write about is called, “On the streets: the federal response to gay and transgender youth” by Nico Sifra Quintana, Josh Rosenthal, and Jeff Krehely. This article talks about both the gay and transgender population becoming homeless and how their lives are on the streets. Like I said before, it is very difficult to find a scholarly article that focuses on just the transgender population becoming homeless. Although this article does the very thing that Shannon Crossley might find aggravating, it was quite interesting. It talks about how becoming homeless at such a young can harm them in the future. When the transgender youth become homeless, they are at higher risk for sexual assault, harassment, mental health issues, and barriers to a free and appropriate education (Quintana, 2010). Usually when the transgender youth becomes homeless, they seek shelter in cars, shelters, public places, abandoned buildings, and other places that don’t seem appropriate for any human to live in (Quintana, 2010). Not only do they have to find a place to shelter themselves, but they also have to struggle with finding food and preventing themselves from becoming a victim of physical and sexual harassment (Quintana, 2010). Since most cities cannot handle the high demands for more homeless services and emergency shelters, they depend on the criminal justice system to take care of these homeless minors. Which is why transgender homeless youth are at a higher risk of either being incarcerated or committing a crime (Quintana, 2010). This doesn’t make sense because studies show that it costs a lot less to permanently move a homeless youth off the streets, ( which costs $5,887) than to maintain a youth in the criminal justice system for one year, (which costs $53,665) (Quintana, 2010). Since their homelessness can soon lead to incarceration, this leads to discrimination once they are incarcerated. A 2005 study has shown that the transgender inmates have reported being verbally, sexually and/or physically harassed by other inmates and the staff (Quintana, 2010). The same study has also shown that transgender youth report not being protected from unwanted sex that the staff forces upon them, and that they are more likely to be sexually assaulted while they are incarcerated. When the article starts to come to a close, it talks about how the federal government isn’t responding well to this problem. They’re not doing enough to “strengthen the safety nets for transgender youth to keep them from becoming homeless” (Quintana, 2010). The federal government is also failing to help this specific homeless population by not providing the proper funding to better these homeless services and shelters. Nondiscrimination regulations is also a big contributor to this issue, since they are not enforced in every state or people just don’t care enough to follow these rules, while the federal government doesn’t do anything to try to enforce them (Quintana, 2010). This article has touched a lot of aspects that deal with the transgender youth becoming homeless. Some things that I agree with these authors on is how the federal government is handling this situation. They aren’t really trying to provide any type of additional or proper funding so these homeless services can function properly, and they aren’t enforcing any nondiscrimination regulations that already do exist. There really isn’t anything that I disagree with, since the article mostly consisted of research and studies. Nico Sifra Quintana & Josh Rosenthal & Jeff Krehely (2010). On the streets: the federal response to gay & transgender homeless youth. https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2010/06/pdf/lgbtyouthhomelessness.pdf