Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson is a journalist with 10+ years experience amplifying LGBTQ+ voices.
This has been a difficult week marked by unprecedented escalation in both rhetoric and policy attacks. The coordination and escalation is breathtaking in its scope and terrifying in its implications.
New book Genderqueer Menopause by Lasara Firefox Allen addresses an overlooked and underserved population
Trans youth study reveals bathroom avoidance can cause serious health problems. How anti-trans bathroom ban laws create trauma and medical complications.
New research reveals queer clinicians providing gender-affirming care are experiencing significant moral distress and fear for their safety amid legislative attacks.
How ecological-systems thinking challenges the neutrality ideal—and why mutual aid and community connection are protective factors for marginalized clients
Legacy media is failing LGBTQ+ communities. Independent journalism fights back with facts. Help me reach 13 more subscribers.
Federal funding threats target all trans healthcare as new research confirms treatment stability and effectiveness
Love drives out hate: on life-saving care and the long game of justice for a teenaged peer HIV educator turned eating-disorder specialist
Beyond HRT, top surgery, and bottom surgery, these are just a few other gender-affirming care options to consider when helping patients with their care plans
Google sends families to conversion therapy sites, healthcare challenges of detransitioners—plus I'm participating in the Back Indie Media Drive this month.