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Trans Sports Bans Are a Public Health Crisis

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Dec 3, 2025

Trans Sports Bans Are a Public Health Crisis

Legislative exclusion from athletics removes a proven suicide prevention intervention from children who need it most.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Complicating and Conversing on Fertility Preservation Timelines

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Nov 19, 2025

Complicating and Conversing on Fertility Preservation Timelines

Standard protocols prioritizing the fertility of transgender youth may be delaying necessary gender-affirming care

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Taking Feedback Like a Pro

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Nov 5, 2025

Taking Feedback Like a Pro

What Neuroscience—and Well Beings News Experts—Teach Us About Receiving Criticism

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

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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.

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
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
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
BDSM and Kink: Essential Insights for Providers

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

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Aug 28, 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
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Behind Body Dissatisfaction, Discomfort, and Disordered Eating

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Aug 21, 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

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
X Files: the Nonbinary Struggle with Healthcare Data Software

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Aug 7, 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
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
From Isolation to Organization

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Jul 17, 2025

From Isolation to Organization

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

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Flagging Safety Beyond the Flag

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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

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
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
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
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
In Visible Barriers: the PrEP Divide

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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
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Equity by Design?

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Jun 12, 2025

Equity by Design?

The promises—and potential perils—of algorithmic healthcare

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
No Safe Space

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Jun 4, 2025

No Safe Space

disaster and displacement for LGBTQ+ communities

Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson
The LGBTQ+ Health Data Gap is Widening

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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
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
Baxstar Jonmarie Ferguson

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