I never imagined that providing standard, evidence-based medical care, and explaining that care clearly to patients, could put me at risk of federal prosecution.

Yet that is the position I find myself in today.

I am a board-certified family medicine physician and the founder of a small queer- and trans-owned clinic providing gender affirming care. Our clinic is now at the center of a Department of Justice appeal after we Read more…

As a queer, nonbinary, poly, and kinky person, medicine has been a challenging field to fit into, both as a patient and a physician.

While a first-year med student, I was misdiagnosed and inaccurately treated for an STI due to my physician’s biased and discriminatory views. A week after my painful injection, I had to go back and ask why I wasn’t getting better. He then – in his office, not …

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