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Jun 29, 2025

What Do Trans People Really Want from Providers?

Transgender healthcare cultural competency is about so much more than pronouns—it’s about celebrating our joy, our stories, and our full humanity.

BJ Ferguson

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May 08, 2025

5 Key LGBTQ+ Resources Every Health Worker Should Bookmark

The scientific studies, community resources, and professional practice guides you will come back to again and again.

BJ Ferguson

Is This a Thing?Is This a Thing?

Aug 03, 2025

Autism on the Gaydar? Is This a Thing?

Dear Mx. Thing: why are queer people so good at clocking my autism?

Mx. Thing

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Aug 10, 2025

Provider POV: Daniel Maigler of Paws for Patrick

On owning mistakes, earning trust, and fighting for queer futures

BJ Ferguson

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Aug 07, 2025

X Files: the Nonbinary Struggle with Healthcare Data Software

How outdated healthcare software creates barriers for transgender and nonbinary patients—and what developers and providers can do about it

BJ Ferguson

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Aug 04, 2025

The Monday Roundup | August 4, 2025

The FTC is seeking comments on the "false claims" about the efficacy of gender-affirming care. This is what you need to know about LGBTQ+ healthcare news this week, and how to respond.

BJ Ferguson

Provider POVProvider POV

Aug 10, 2025

Provider POV: Daniel Maigler of Paws for Patrick

On owning mistakes, earning trust, and fighting for queer futures

BJ Ferguson

ReportingReporting

Aug 07, 2025

X Files: the Nonbinary Struggle with Healthcare Data Software

How outdated healthcare software creates barriers for transgender and nonbinary patients—and what developers and providers can do about it

BJ Ferguson

RoundupRoundup

Aug 04, 2025

The Monday Roundup | August 4, 2025

The FTC is seeking comments on the "false claims" about the efficacy of gender-affirming care. This is what you need to know about LGBTQ+ healthcare news this week, and how to respond.

BJ Ferguson

Is This a Thing?Is This a Thing?

Aug 03, 2025

Autism on the Gaydar? Is This a Thing?

Dear Mx. Thing: why are queer people so good at clocking my autism?

Mx. Thing

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Jul 30, 2025

Critics claim gender clinics are seeing an excess of trans boys. But new data suggest otherwise

The notion of gender dysphoria as "social contagion" isn’t supported by robust evidence, and the latest research directly challenges this idea. (Originally published by The Conversation.)

Ken Pang, +1

RoundupRoundup

Jul 29, 2025

The Monday Roundup | July 28, 2025

New research documents legislative harm, reveals surprising neurological benefits of gender-affirming care, and advances hormone therapy science.

BJ Ferguson

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Jul 22, 2025

The Monday Roundup | July 21, 2025

When hospitals abandon patients, community providers step up. You're not alone in this fight.

BJ Ferguson

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Jul 20, 2025

Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries, Unpacking Community Realities

Peer Reviewed: Dr. Sean Arayasirikul’s vision for an interconnected liberation research methodology

BJ Ferguson

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Jul 18, 2025

From Isolation to Organization

How healthcare workers can build collective power for patient advocacy beyond the ethical imperative of the individual.

BJ Ferguson

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Jul 16, 2025

Why physician voices matter in the fight against anti-LGBTQ+ laws

In a time when anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is proliferating across the United States, targeting everything from gender-affirming care to inclusive science education, many physicians are facing a new ethical frontier. More than ever, the duty to protect patient health extends beyond the clinic walls.

BJ Ferguson

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