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Gender-Affirming Care Is Important
Read More: Gender-Affirming Care Is ImportantJune is Pride Month. By the time she was 12 years old, Erin Reed knew she was transgender. But the Louisiana native didnโt have access to the medical care she needed to transition, so it would be another 17 years before medical intervention would allow her to feel at home in her body. โI went…
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Embracing Hope: The Transformative Power of Gender-Affirming Care
Read More: Embracing Hope: The Transformative Power of Gender-Affirming CareJune is Pride Month. Hope Giselle is an organizer, author, artist, activist and DE&I specialist. You can find her acting as a Grand Marshal at the NYC Pride March, โStrength in Solidarity,โ on June 25. We live in a world that often shuns people who dare to challenge societal norms, but nevertheless my journey as…
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Fishing, Strip Clubs and Golf: How Male-Focused Networking in Medicine Blocks Female Colleagues From Top Jobs
Read More: Fishing, Strip Clubs and Golf: How Male-Focused Networking in Medicine Blocks Female Colleagues From Top JobsBy Jennifer R. Grandis, University of California, San Francisco Women have been entering academic medicine at nearly the same rate as men for decades, but very few women reach the top levels of leadership. For example, as of April 2022, of the 71 U.S. cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute, only seven are…
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New Report Finds U.S. Women Have the Highest Rate of Maternal Deaths Among High-Income Countries
Read More: New Report Finds U.S. Women Have the Highest Rate of Maternal Deaths Among High-Income CountriesFrom The Commonwealth Fund The maternal mortality crisis in the United States has been well documented: U.S. women have the highest rate of maternal deaths among high-income countries, while Black women are nearly three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women are. But maternal deaths and complications may be a bellwether…
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Access, Access to health care, Gender, Gender diversity, Health care, Health disparities, Health insurance, Lgbtq, Preventive care, Racial disparities, Racism, Transgender
Whatโs Sexual Orientation Got to Do With It? LGTBQ People Face Discrimination in Healthcare
Read More: Whatโs Sexual Orientation Got to Do With It? LGTBQ People Face Discrimination in HealthcareMarch 21 to March 25 is National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week. At age 28, Laura Silverstein tripped while running, dislocating her pinky finger trying to break her fall. Now 52, Silverstein said her experience at the emergency room that day still gives her โthe heebie jeebies.โ The doctor probed Silverstein about her birth control method,…
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From Healthy Births to Sustainable Management, 5 Essential Reads on the Fascinating and Complex Vagina
Read More: From Healthy Births to Sustainable Management, 5 Essential Reads on the Fascinating and Complex VaginaBy Leah Samuel, The Conversation As the most common route for arriving into the world, the human vagina has, of course, existed for as long as there have been people. Despite the name, however, itโs not so much a โsheathโ โ the Latin meaning of โvaginaโ โ as it is a muscular tube of varying…
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The Sex of Your Cells Matters When It Comes to Heart Disease
Read More: The Sex of Your Cells Matters When It Comes to Heart DiseaseBy Heart tissue with XX chromosomes has a higher concentration of cells (colored green, with blue nuclei) that promote scarring than do cells with XY chromosomes.Brian Aguado, CC BY-NC-ND We found that the cells we grew on our hydrogel models were able to replicate the sex differences seen in valve tissue โ namely, valve cells…
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I Came Out on Christmas Eve
Read More: I Came Out on Christmas EveAs told to Alexandra Frost As a child, when I watched shows with my mom and LGBTQ characters came on the screen, she would stick out her tongue in disgust and make a disapproving sound. At our Catholic church, where my family was deeply devoted, I listened, confused, to the ideologies: I didnโt understand why…
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Understanding LGBTQ Terminology
Read More: Understanding LGBTQ TerminologyOne of our core missions at HealthyWomen is to educate, and we know there can be a lot of confusion about the words or phrases to use when it comes to discussing LGBTQ-related topics. In order to foster respectful, inclusive conversation, we want to give our readers some guidance on the meaning of the related…
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Female Scientists Set Back by the Pandemic May Never Make up Lost Time
Read More: Female Scientists Set Back by the Pandemic May Never Make up Lost TimeBy Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California During the COVID-19 quarantines, scientists, like most professionals, took their work home. Women researchers, however, bore the disproportionate burden of caregiving responsibilities, forcing a drop in their productivity. Although this decrease may be temporary, my research suggests the hit to women’s reputations and their scientific impacts may compound…
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Whatโs Behind the Rising Profile of Transgender Kids? 3 Essential Reads
Read More: Whatโs Behind the Rising Profile of Transgender Kids? 3 Essential ReadsBy Nick Lehr, The Conversation Why are trans youth more visible these days? Is it due to more widespread acceptance, or more media coverage? Just how many trans kids are there? There seem to be few clear-cut answers. But after talking with a number of scholars who study transgender youth โ and editing articles written…
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Too Few Women Get to Invent โ Thatโs a Problem for Womenโs Health
Read More: Too Few Women Get to Invent โ Thatโs a Problem for Womenโs HealthBy Rem Koning, Harvard Business School MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a scientist and inventor, including growing a human ear on a mouse. She now spends her days unpacking the biological mechanisms underlying endometriosis, a condition in which uterus-like tissue grows outside of the uterus. Endometriosis can…
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Anxiety, Depression, Gender, Gender diversity, Lgbtq, mental health, Parenting, Self-Care, Stress, Transgender
The Other Side of the Rainbow
Read More: The Other Side of the RainbowAs told to Chandra Whitfield June is Pride Month. Even at a young age, I knew I was different. While the other boys loved to be rough and tumble, crashing their toy trucks and cars and playing sports, I longed to wear frilly dresses and I created fashion shows with my G.I. Joe dolls. It…
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Budget, Career, caregiving, Childcare, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gender, Gender diversity, Lgbtq, Parenting, Transgender, Work
Trans Moms Discuss Their Unique Parenting Challenges During the Pandemic โ and What They Worry About When Things Go Back to โNormalโ
Read More: Trans Moms Discuss Their Unique Parenting Challenges During the Pandemic โ and What They Worry About When Things Go Back to โNormalโBy Derek P. Siegel, University of Massachusetts Amherst Between 25% and 50% of transgender adults in the U.S. have children. Some have kids before coming out as trans, others adopt or foster, and some use egg or sperm cells they’ve frozen โ usually before starting hormone replacement therapy. As a sociologist who studies inequality and…
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โI Just Feel Like Myselfโ: A Nonbinary Child in Their Own Words
Read More: โI Just Feel Like Myselfโ: A Nonbinary Child in Their Own WordsBy Martha Bebinger, WBUR, Kaiser Health News It’s 7:30 a.m. on a school day. Two parents are racing to get their three young children dressed, fed, packed for the day, into coats and out the door when 6-year-old Hallel runs downstairs, crying. Ari, Hallel’s father, is the first to ask โWhat’s wrong?” The answer launched…
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Danica Roem Is Transcending Gender
Read More: Danica Roem Is Transcending GenderDanica Roem made history in 2017 when she became the first transgender lawmaker in Virginia. A champion of LGBTQ rights, she recently introduced a bill in Virginia that bans the “gay and trans panic” defense that has historically been used in cases of murder and manslaughter against gay and trans people. It was signed into…
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Can a Blood Test Diagnose Depression?
Read More: Can a Blood Test Diagnose Depression?More than 264 million people suffer from depression globally, and many never receive treatment. For those who have access to mental health care, treating depression and mood disorders can often feel like a guessing game with doctors and patients cycling through different medications in hopes of finding what works. “Mental health is not like other…
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Access, Affordability, Contraception, Gender diversity, Health disparities, Medical tests, Prevention, Preventive health, Sexually transmitted diseases, Stds, Vaccinations
Syphilis Cases in California Drive a Record-Setting Year for STDs Nationwide
Read More: Syphilis Cases in California Drive a Record-Setting Year for STDs NationwideBy April Dembosky, KQED, Kaiser Health News In certain circles of San Francisco, a case of syphilis can be as common and casual as the flu, to the point where Billy Lemon can’t even remember how many times he’s had it. This story is from a partnership that includes NPR, KQED and KHN. It can…
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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gender diversity, Prevention, Preventive health, Research, Science, Vaccinations, Vaccines
The Gender Vaccine Gap: More Women Than Men Are Getting Covid Shots
Read More: The Gender Vaccine Gap: More Women Than Men Are Getting Covid ShotsBy Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News This story also ran on USA Today. It can be republished for free. Mary Ann Steiner drove 2ยฝ hours from her home in the St. Louis suburb of University City to the tiny Ozark town of Centerville, Missouri, to get vaccinated against covid-19. After pulling into the drive-thru line…
