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HIV, Hivaids, Lgbtq, Sexually transmitted diseases, Sexually transmitted infections, Stds, Sti, Transgender
Why Transgender Women Are at Higher Risk for HIV
Read More: Why Transgender Women Are at Higher Risk for HIVWhen it comes to HIV, thereโs positive news: Infection rates have been declining since 2017, and thereโs hope for the development of an HIV vaccine. But thereโs still much progress to be made in the transgender community, which is heavily affected by the disease. A study done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
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I Was the CEO in a Male-Dominated Field When I Came Out to My Company as a Trans Woman
Read More: I Was the CEO in a Male-Dominated Field When I Came Out to My Company as a Trans WomanAs told to Jacquelyne Froeber June is Pride Month. I remember pulling into the parking spot, turning off the car and just sitting there for a minute. My office is in the suburbs on Long Island, so itโs quiet. It was just me and the nervous click of my French manicure on the steering wheel.…
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Redefiningย Menopause: Including Gender-Diverse and Trans People
Read More: Redefiningย Menopause: Including Gender-Diverse and Trans PeopleEveryone who menstruates goes through menopause including gender-diverse and trans people. These three videos offer advice from experts about the LGBTQ+ menopause experience including ways to manage symptoms, find supportive providers and other helpful information. Experts include: Monica Christmas, M.D., OB-GYN and director of the Center for Womenโs Integrated Health and the Menopause program at…
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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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Transgender People of Color Face Unique Challenges as Gender Discrimination and Racism Intersect
Read More: Transgender People of Color Face Unique Challenges as Gender Discrimination and Racism IntersectBy Gabriel Lockett, University of Florida; Jules Sostre, University of Florida, and Roberto L. Abreu, University of Florida Throughout history, transgender people of color have had a place of honor in many indigenous cultures around the world. This changed in many places, however, as European colonizers began forcing indigenous people to follow white social norms.…
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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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Love Conquers All: My Journey as the Mother of a Transgender Daughter
Read More: Love Conquers All: My Journey as the Mother of a Transgender DaughterAs told to The Human Rights Campaign You might be interested inTransgender Childrenโs Rights Are Under AttackRemoving Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening for the LGBTQ CommunityThe Other Side of the RainbowDanica Roem Is Transcending Gender
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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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Transgender Childrenโs Rights Are Under Attack
Read More: Transgender Childrenโs Rights Are Under AttackFive years ago, Lisa Stanton’s now 10-year-old daughter, Maya, socially transitioned to her affirmed gender. (A person’s affirmed gender is the one that reflects their gender identity, as opposed to the gender assigned to them at birth.) The duo has been fighting against laws challenging transgender rights within their home state of Texas, ever since.…
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Access, Access to health care, Cervical cancer, Gender, Hpv, Lgbtq, Prevention, Preventive health, Transgender
Removing Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening for the LGBTQ Community
Read More: Removing Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening for the LGBTQ CommunityReviewed by Dr. Sue Yom As executive director of the National LGBT Cancer Network, Scout, who goes by only one name, knows better than most about the importance of staying up to date on cancer screenings. And yet, Scout admits he’s frequently put off his own screenings for human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer. Because…
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7 Tips for LGBTQ Parents to Help Schools Fight Stigma and Ignorance
Read More: 7 Tips for LGBTQ Parents to Help Schools Fight Stigma and IgnoranceBy Abbie E. Goldberg, Clark University Many parents want to ensure that their kids are in classrooms where they and their families are respected and embraced. However, as a psychologist and researcher who has studied LGBTQ parents’ relationships with schools for over a decade, I have found that LGBTQ parents often have specific concerns when…
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Access, Access to health care, Adolescent, Affordability, Anxiety, Depression, Health care, Health insurance, Hormone health, Keep the care, Lgbtq, mental health, Parenting, Parenting teens, Research, Stress, Transgender
Transgender Medicine โ What Care Looks Like, Who Seeks It out and Whatโs Still Unknown: 3 Essential Reads
Read More: Transgender Medicine โ What Care Looks Like, Who Seeks It out and Whatโs Still Unknown: 3 Essential ReadsBy Daniel Merino, The Conversation Transgender people continue to be the focus of political culture wars in the U.S. In the spring of 2021, lawmakers in many states sought to limit or ban transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming care. The laws proposed โ and in some cases passed โ were written to have a direct…
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Adolescent, Anxiety, Depression, Lgbtq, mental health, Parenting, Parenting teens, Policy, Research, Stress, Transgender
Conversion Therapy Is Discredited and Increases Risk of Suicide โ yet Fewer Than Half of US States Have Bans in Place
Read More: Conversion Therapy Is Discredited and Increases Risk of Suicide โ yet Fewer Than Half of US States Have Bans in PlaceJune is Pride Month. By Donna Sheperis, Palo Alto University and Carl Sheperis, Texas A&M-San Antonio Pride Month is being marked by some lawmakers in Kentucky with a renewed push to ban โconversion therapy โ the discredited practice of trying to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. If successful, the bill, which aims to…
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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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Access, Access to health care, Affordability, Body image, Depression, Gender, Hormone health, Lgbtq, Medication safety, Parenting, Transgender
Trans Kids in the US Were Seeking Treatment Decades Before Todayโs Political Battles Over Access to Health Care
Read More: Trans Kids in the US Were Seeking Treatment Decades Before Todayโs Political Battles Over Access to Health CareBy Jules Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that she was a girl from a very young age, but fights with her parents over her transness had made it difficult for her to live comfortably and…
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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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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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Access, Affordability, Body image, Depression, Gender, Hormone health, Medication safety, Parenting, Transgender
How Parents Can Support a Child Who Comes out as Trans โ by Conquering Their Own Fears, Following Their Childโs Lead and Tolerating Ambiguity
Read More: How Parents Can Support a Child Who Comes out as Trans โ by Conquering Their Own Fears, Following Their Childโs Lead and Tolerating AmbiguityBy Em Matsuno, Palo Alto University Young transgender, or trans, people face high rates of anxiety, depression and suicide. These elevated mental health risks largely stem from external factors such as discrimination, victimization and โ most especially โ family rejection rather than from being trans. Em Matsuno, a research fellow at Palo Alto University, is…
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Iโm a Pediatrician Who Cares for Transgender Kids โ Hereโs What You Need to Know About Social Support, Puberty Blockers and Other Medical Options That Improve Lives of Transgender Youth
Read More: Iโm a Pediatrician Who Cares for Transgender Kids โ Hereโs What You Need to Know About Social Support, Puberty Blockers and Other Medical Options That Improve Lives of Transgender YouthMandy Coles, Boston University When Charlie, a 10-year-old boy, came in for his first visit, he didn’t look at me or my colleague. Angry and crying, he insisted to us that he was cisgender โ that he was a boy and had been born male. A few months before Charlie came into our office, he…
