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Oct 23, 2025

Meeting Parents Where They Are: Strategies for Affirming Trans Youth Care

Practical strategies and a comprehensive guide for healthcare providers to support transgender youth mental health outcomes when parents resist gender-affirming care.

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Oct 08, 2025

Government Shutdown Holds Trans Healthcare Rights in the Balance

In what could potentially be the longest government shutdown in history, Republicans are trying to force Democrats to agree to Trump's anti-trans agenda, using government employees, grant-funded research, and SNAP recipients as collateral.

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Sep 25, 2025

BDSM and Kink: Essential Insights for Providers

What healthcare and wellness professionals need to know about the pursuit of pain on purpose

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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Sep 19, 2025

Transgender Bathroom Bans are a Growing Public Health Issue

Trans youth study reveals bathroom avoidance can cause serious health problems. How anti-trans bathroom ban laws create trauma and medical complications.

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Sep 04, 2025

8 Lesser-Known Gender-Affirming Care Options Providers Should Know

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

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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Aug 29, 2025

How to Start LGBTQ+ Support Groups: Essential Frameworks for Providers

Why the best intentions often cause the most harm—and how to build truly supportive spaces for marginalized communities

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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Aug 22, 2025

Behind Body Dissatisfaction, Discomfort, and Disordered Eating

A practitioner's guide to understanding the complex intersections—and critical differences—between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia

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How outdated healthcare software creates barriers for transgender and nonbinary patients—and what developers and providers can do about it

Baxstar Jonmarie 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.

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Jul 11, 2025

Flagging Safety Beyond the Flag

How design and content can signal safety and more, with examples from some truly kickass inclusive health and wellness websites

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Jul 03, 2025

Ohio Just Made It Nearly Impossible for Trans People to Receive Mental Health Care on Medicaid

Section 333.13 of HB96 threatens to cut Medicaid funding for any mental health provider who even so much as acknowledges a patient's gender identity or uses their correct pronouns.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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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.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson