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Dec 8, 2025

Monday Roundup | December 8, 2025

Anti-trans NDAA provisions stripped, Georgia care ban blocked, plus HHS disrespects Admiral Levine—here's your Monday Roundup.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Research in Crisis: replication, RCTs, and un(der)funding

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Nov 21, 2025

Research in Crisis: replication, RCTs, and un(der)funding

Licensed psychologist and therapist Luke R. Allen, PhD, discusses his recent research on suicidality following the initiation of gender-affirming HRT for trans youth, including the crisis of replication and the untenable demand for randomized controlled trials.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Resource

Nov 12, 2025

Essential Evidence: Your Complete Resource Guide to Gender-Affirming Care

Two evidence-based tools healthcare providers need when parents arrive with questions: a comprehensive research compendium and a quick-reference fact sheet

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Provider POV

Nov 8, 2025

Provider POV: Dr. Alice Hoang of Brooklyn Mint Dental

On building trust through intentional intake forms, continuous learning, and neighborhood care

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Government Shutdown Holds Trans Healthcare Rights in the Balance

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Oct 8, 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.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Essays

Oct 1, 2025

Misgendering Myself

Reflecting on language, habit, and the pain of being misgendered, even by yourself

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Transgender Bathroom Bans are a Growing Public Health Issue

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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.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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

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Sep 4, 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

Switch Hitters, Southpaws, and Sexuality? Is This a Thing??

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Aug 24, 2025

Switch Hitters, Southpaws, and Sexuality? Is This a Thing??

Dear Mx. Thing: why were half my queer dinner party guests lefties?

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Essays

Aug 13, 2025

I Used to Feel Fat

How thirty years of diet culture kept me from understanding my own gender dysphoria, and what that means for the trans patients in your care.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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

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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.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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

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Jul 2, 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

What Do Trans People Really Want from Providers?

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Jun 28, 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

Peer Reviewed: Studying SOGICE with Willow Sipling

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Jun 21, 2025

Peer Reviewed: Studying SOGICE with Willow Sipling

Conversion therapy by any other name... is still torture.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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Jun 19, 2025

In Visible Barriers: the PrEP Divide

More than 4 in 10 Black trans women in major US cities are HIV+. We need to change the way we think about prevention.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Provider POV

Jun 13, 2025

Provider POV: Shelley Washington of the Normal Anomaly Initiative

Affirming care means not just care for everyone, but also care for everything. This is holistic wellness that breaks barriers.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Practicing Radical Safety with Dr. Syd Young

Queer in Practice

Jun 6, 2025

Practicing Radical Safety with Dr. Syd Young

Why true inclusion sometimes means saying no — lessons from a nonbinary physical therapist building radical safety for queer trans clients.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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Jun 4, 2025

No Safe Space

disaster and displacement for LGBTQ+ communities

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

Free

May 14, 2025

The LGBTQ+ Health Data Gap is Widening

Systemic erasure in health records is fueling a crisis for queer and trans communities—experts say it’s time to count who and what matters.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

5 Key LGBTQ+ Resources Every Health Worker Should Bookmark

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May 7, 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.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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Monday Roundup | December 8, 2025

Research in Crisis: replication, RCTs, and un(der)funding

Essential Evidence: Your Complete Resource Guide to Gender-Affirming Care

Provider POV: Dr. Alice Hoang of Brooklyn Mint Dental

Government Shutdown Holds Trans Healthcare Rights in the Balance

Misgendering Myself

Transgender Bathroom Bans are a Growing Public Health Issue

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

Switch Hitters, Southpaws, and Sexuality? Is This a Thing??

I Used to Feel Fat

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

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

What Do Trans People Really Want from Providers?

Peer Reviewed: Studying SOGICE with Willow Sipling

In Visible Barriers: the PrEP Divide

Provider POV: Shelley Washington of the Normal Anomaly Initiative

Practicing Radical Safety with Dr. Syd Young

No Safe Space

The LGBTQ+ Health Data Gap is Widening

5 Key LGBTQ+ Resources Every Health Worker Should Bookmark

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