"I deserve to have gender affirming care..."
"My name is Shea Buckley, I use they/them pronouns, and I am a trans, gender non-conforming, queer medical student in my first year at...
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- Jan 21, 2022
"She Diagnosed me with Ego-Dystonic Lesbianism..."
"My family structure consists of me and my wife. We’ve been together since 2012, and we have a daughter named Chloe. She is two and some...
- Dec 17, 2021
"Your queerness is important..."
“I am Landon Casolari, I use he/him or they/them pronouns. I am currently studying to become a therapist. It is exciting but it is a lot!...
- Dec 3, 2021
"I am not an inconvenience..."
"For context, I am a trans individual and that is not something I came to realize until college. When I was 12-13 roughly (existing as a...
- Nov 19, 2021
"You need to protect your own energy..."
"My name is Sabina. I’m a third year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and I plan to apply for OB-GYN...
- Oct 29, 2021
"I’m going to make waves..."
"Some people might be more *stable* in their identity. I’ve come to the end of the journey of discovering who I am and how I identify...
- Oct 15, 2021
"I should be able to stand up for my human rights."
"My name is Eliana Rubin. I use they/them and she/her pronouns. I am originally from and currently live in Los Angeles, CA. I'm attending...
- Oct 9, 2021
"Say it, Stand up for it, Speak up for it..."
"I'm a first year medical student now, I took a pretty long route to it – so I'm 28. I came out in HS twice. I first came out in 10th...
- Aug 27, 2021
"Weaknesses are actually the things that make you the best person you could possibly be..."
“Like every little gay boy, my journey to coming out started at about 4 or 5-years-old. I remember running around the house in my mom’s...
- Aug 20, 2021
"You are worthy of having an identity."
"I graduated medical school in 2015, did my residency in anatomic and clinical pathology, and am sub specialized in forensic pathology. I...
- Jul 30, 2021
"Now, I realize that I always knew and that it was always a part of me..."
"A while ago I had shared a popular infographic from Pink New on my Instagram story. It was a pie chart of what people *think* trans...
- Jul 23, 2021
"Live your life as your true self. "
"I always take the opportunity to be able to talk about being trans in medicine and being a trans Person of Color in medicine. Growing...
- Apr 2, 2021
"...even unicorns have a herd somewhere."
“I came out when I was 18. I had to come out several times to several different family members. I always thought that coming out was...
- Mar 19, 2021
"Uncleaving sex and gender is going to change the entire world..."
"Starting as a teenager, I came to think of queer health through of lens of social justice in many different ways. I started thinking...
- Feb 26, 2021
"Keep breathing, keep moving..."
"Being 34 years old and diagnosed with Parkinson’s was quite a heavy thing to be handed. You know, I have certain expectations of what I...
- Feb 5, 2021
"...he referred to my boyfriend as a special friend."
"I've always been a lifelong patient of a case study because I’ve had renal health issues since I was born, but I never really ran into...
- Jan 22, 2021
"...I would leave feeling worse than I would going in"
“My name is Will Knight, and I identify as a cisgender gay man. I’m a third year Doctor of Physical Therapy, and I’ll be graduating this...
- Jan 15, 2021
"...it made me question whether I should enter medicine..."
"My name is Meg Quint and I use they/them pronouns, or just Meg is fine, and I identify as nonbinary! I am a senior in college and...
- Dec 18, 2020
"I didn’t recognize being gay as a gift"
[Instagram: @michaelpulte] "I grew up with two moms. From a very early age I had experiences around queer people…it takes a village and...
- Nov 27, 2020
"...You could tell they googled 'gay' and 'Person of Color'..."
“I think of myself first as a first-generation American child of immigrants. I felt more adversity from that than from my LGBTQ status,...
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