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LGBTQ elders are suffering abuse but most won’t report it
LGBTQ elders reported alarming rates of poverty, discrimination, health care risk, and abuse in a new study from the state of Oregon.
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Conservative protests force transgender youth health clinic to close
Officials said it would be better for patients for “privacy reasons” if the clinic stopped existing and patients get care through various other departments.
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The pressure to be thin as a non-binary person
“We finally have the vocabulary to express ourselves so, please, don’t just tolerate us, accept and respect us.”
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Woman cured her own HIV without medications or therapy
The woman was diagnosed with HIV in 2013. Eight years without antiretroviral medications later, intact HIV DNA can’t be found in her body.
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Trans Army veteran rejected by multiple nursing homes almost couldn’t find help anywhere
One facility even said she would need a private room “because she still has her ‘boy parts’ and cannot be placed with a woman.”
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New study shows why there are so few LGBTQ anti-vaxxers
LGBTQ people have been much better at getting vaccinated than straight people. Why?
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Native LGBTQ people struggle disproportionately from mental health and substance abuse issues
35% of AIAN adults who are LGBTQ have been diagnosed with depression, compared to 23% of AIAN adults who do not identify as LGBTQ.
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Queer adults at much higher risk of suicide
It’s not just the young people who need help.
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Doctor denies lesbian a hysterectomy in case her “sexual orientation changes”
The doctor told the lesbian who was sitting next to her wife, “Maybe you leave your partner, your sexual orientation changes, and you meet someone and he wants children.”
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Queer teens are less likely to get the health care they need. Here’s how pediatricians can help.
Gay and bi teens are more likely to say they’re embarrassed to tell their doctors about their problems, and more worried their parents will find out, compared to straight teens.
