Tag: health

Quickies: Healthcare while Trans, Voting while Trans, and Bill Donohue Sadz

By Jac

In Quickies

On September 15, 2014

Healthcare a Challenge for Transgender People – Everything from finding healthcare professionals who know how to treat you, who will treat you with dignity, and who you can afford to see are huge barriers to accessing treatment for the transgender community. Study: Voter ID Laws May Disenfranchise Trans Voters – The Williams Institute study looked […]

Skepticism , Woo

Makes perfect sense!

By Yessenia

On February 8, 2013

One random bit of woo I encountered from a relative who first heard it on Oprah: Dr. Christian Northrup’s theory of thyroid pathogenesis. In many women thyroid dysfunction develops because of an

Afternoon Inqueery , Gender , Health / Medicine , Transgender

AI: Governmental Measures

By Aretha

On February 3, 2013

This week, Brazilian government announced that trans* people will have the right to use their social names – that is, the name they chose and that fits their identity – to present themselves withi

AI: The Harms of Natural Medicine

By Aretha

In Afternoon Inqueery , Alt Med / Quackery , Education , Family , Health / Medicine , Pseudoscience

On January 6, 2013

This holiday season, a 14-year-old cousin of mine had to have an emergency appendectomy and spent New Year’s eve hospitalized. She had the surgery on Dec. 29th, but she’d been showing symptoms (unbearable pain that refrained her from even walking and inability to keep anything in her stomach among them) since the 22nd. The reason […]

Health / Medicine , HIV / AIDS / STDs

Queer Health: Avoiding the Stealth Bomb

By Benny Vimes

On May 13, 2012

Back a few months ago some friends of mine passed around a (not safe for work) blog post titled “Stealth Bomb: What it is, What it isnt, How it Works.” I do recommend clicking that link an