Healthcare

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Meet the queer man changing what people think of Planned Parenthood

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Patrick Comerford's job is to organize and train, but advocating for LGBTQ healthcare is his life's work.

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Transgender University of Wisconsin employees sue over insurance cuts

Saturday, April 8, 2017

The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of anthropology graduate student Alina Boyden and cancer researcher Shannon Andrews.

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Affordable Care Act supporters worry as Trump predicts Obamacare will ‘explode’

Sunday, March 26, 2017

For many who rely on the Affordable Care Act, celebration over the GOP's failure to repeal it is turning into anxiety about what happens next.

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Oregon lawmakers prepare to protect LGBTQ people, women from Trump

Friday, March 17, 2017

The proposed law would ban interference in terminating a pregnancy, and would ensure full reproductive health care coverage, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Preexisting condition? Your health coverage may go poof once Trump is president

Friday, November 11, 2016

It appears Trump wants to replace ObamaCare with “high-risk pools,” an unproven "special" insurance program.

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NY considers Medicaid coverage of hormone treatment for transgender youth

Monday, October 10, 2016

New York State is considering offering Medicaid coverage to transgender patience under 18 who wish to undergo hormone replacement therapy.

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Mother sues hospital for calling suicidal trans son a girl repeatedly

Monday, October 3, 2016

Kyler Prescott killed himself weeks after he was released. Now his mother wants justice.

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Washington State’s first gender clinic opens next month to treat trans kids

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic will be only the 5th hospital in the country of its kind.

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Trans man chestfeeds his baby in pages of two mainstream magazines

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

"It was a gamble," says Evan Hempel of Boston. "It turns out I just feel like it's really cool that my body can do this."

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South Africa to give free treatment to all people living with HIV

Friday, September 2, 2016

The health department said the change in policy would help increase life expectancy in the country, currently at 63 years, to at least 70 years by 2030.

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