Me:“I go to church too. Now, what’ll it be?” Our office will sometimes arrange little gatherings outside of the office; drinks, dinner, sometimes a trip to the cinema if there’s a film a lot of us are into. One coworker is asexual – it rarely comes up in conversation if ev...
"Cancer care within the LGBTQ community is a largely ignored public health issue," says Gwendolyn Quinn, Ph.D., a professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Population Health at NYU Langone Health. "To address this problem, we have to start by understanding the gaps in k...
Unfortunately, medical schools have always been part of the problem. The many doctors who have written in the NEJM were also pillars of medical education. They taught and wrote the textbooks and research used to rationalize institutionalization and criminalization of gender nonconformity and same-sex...
Problem Drinking Among Lgbtq College Students: The Intersecting Role of Gender and RaceMichael Woodford, PhD
Despite a growing global awareness of the struggles trans people face, many employers remain ill-equipped to create the policies and workplace cultures that would support trans employees. Part of the problem is a lack of knowledge about these challenges. Indeed, even companies that are LGBTQ+-fri...
(Chloë Sevigny) and finds a small group of friends – the only problem is, they don't know that Brandon was born in a female body. As he says, using the language of the day, he is going through a 'sexual identity crisis'. The film has faced criticism for using a cisgender ...
From bullying and discrimination to paid parental leave, these are the biggest issues facing LGBTQ families today -- and ways to solve them.
Non-binary, also known as genderqueer, is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine?—?identities that are outside the gender binary. Genderqueer A term which refers to individuals or groups who “queer” or problematise the hegemonic notions of sex, gender...
transphobic reactions of guardians. Systemic discrimination, in the education, mental health and health care, and justice systems, exacerbates risk. If these vulnerabilities are left unaddressed, rates of LGBTQ children experiencing sex trafficking will worsen as the overall problem of child trafficking ...
deter individuals from beginning and completing their training in orthopedic surgery. While they favor enforcing no-tolerance policies against bullying and discrimination, they caution that focusing purely on punitive measures has been shown to be ineffective in addressing the root problem in the work...