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Rebecca Juro, Trans Journalist and Activist, Dies of Cancer

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Advocate contributor, has died at age 59 due to complications from lung cancer.Juro died December 17, her brother Steve Juro announced on Facebook.“She was a writer, a strong advocate for Trans issues, a companion for my mother, a punk rocker (Joan Jett groupie, see picture) and many other things,” her brother wrote.

We weren’t that close and we often saw things differently, but we were family and loved and accepted each other. She would always fight for what she believed.

She was battling lung cancer, thought she was beating it, but then it took her. We will miss her and she will always be remembered.”  A New York City native, Rebecca Juro came out as a trans woman in 1997, when she was 35, Gay City News reports.

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