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Join the movement for LGBTQ+ health equity today! https://t.co/xv70GP3k7P
Joined October 2009
The @AmerMedicalAssn voted to pass the @TheEndoSociety 's resolution on protecting access to gender-affirming care + opposing legal penalties against patients & providers. #TransHealth #HealthEquity #LGBTQ ➡️
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Trans people exist. Cis people exist.
“Cisgender” is not a slur. It is a term used used in scientific, legal, medical, and everyday contexts. The attempt to make “cis” a slur is a blatant attempt to erase trans identities from a supposed “free speech absolutist.”. Trans people exist. Cis people exist.
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BREAKING: In a bipartisan vote, a Senate committee advanced the nomination of Rachel Levine, MD, as Assistant Sec. for Health. Congrats to Dr. Levine on moving a step closer to being the 1st openly trans nominee confirmed by the Senate. Read our statement:
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At least 38 anti-trans bills to ban or limit gender-affirming care for trans youth have been proposed in 20 states. Alongside @TransEquality, we’ve created an open letter for healthcare providers to oppose these dangerous bills. Sign today:
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Rachel Levine has made history! Assistant Secretary Levine is a trailblazer and a model for LGBTQ health professionals. Our statement:
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Earlier this week, Florida’s governor banned trans youth from participating in school sports. Given this harmful law and ongoing concerns about COVID, GLMA will be holding our 39th Annual Conference on LGBTQ Health *virtually*. The conference was originally planned for FL.
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Not all intersex medical harm is surgical! Some intersex people are put on hormones or blockers they may not want, if their development is not seen as “feminine” or “masculine” enough. #IntersexAwarenessDay #MyIntersexBody ✨
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GLMA stands in solidarity with the Black community and #BlackLivesMatter. Read the full statement here:
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BREAKING: The Idaho Senate has killed this bill. Still, we can't ignore the chilling effect that extreme bills like these have. They're trying to scare providers into harming trans children.
The Idaho House of Representatives passed legislation to make it a crime punishable by life in prison for a parent to seek out gender-affirming health care for their transgender child.
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GLMA and the @APAPsychiatric sent this letter today signed by 31 health associations strongly opposing the @HHSGov proposed rule to eliminate the Healthcare Rights Law protections for transgender people. #ProtectTransHealth
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GLMA recognizes that asexual is a sexuality and honors #AsexualAwarenessWeek. You proudly put the A in #LGBTQIA!
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Suicide is too common among our #LGBTQ communities. There is always someone you can call - today and every day. Please share widely this list from our friends at @afspnational. #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #NSPW19
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On Bi Visibility Day, GLMA celebrates the diversity and history of bisexual individuals everywhere! We'll say it with you: Bisexuality will not be erased; #BiVisibility matters. #BiVisibilityDay #BiWeek
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Bills that oppose gender and sex diversity target trans people–and also critically hit the 2% of people born #intersex. #TransIntersexSolidarity @interACT_adv @TransEquality
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Congratulations to Rachel Levine, MD, on her historic nomination for Assistant Secretary for Health! She is a model for public servants and a trailblazer among LGBTQ health professionals, earning her a GLMA Achievement Award in 2017. Read our statement:
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Happy International Asexuality Day! Providing culturally competent healthcare services is crucial for preventing discrimination against asexual persons. Link in bio> GLMA's official position statement on asexuality. #InternationalAsexualityDay #lgbtqiahealth #HealthEquity
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NEW RESEARCH: "When LGBTQ+ people go to the doctor, they are more likely to be refused medical services, blamed for their health problems and discriminated against than cisgender and heterosexual people."
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"This is a recipe for true disaster. The fight at the intersection of gun violence prevention and LGBTQ+ rights cannot be overemphasized in its significance as a public health crisis." Alex Sheldon, GLMA Executive Director ➡️ @Everytown @StudentsDemand.
Gun violence is an LGBTQ+ issue. Queer youth are more likely to contemplate, attempt, and die by gun suicide than their peers. We stand with the LGBTQ+ community, and we’ll keep working to #DisarmHate and for a future where we’re ALL safe from gun violence.
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Today, we stand united in court with @ACLUTx @aclu_nationwide @PFLAG @LambdaLegal and @TransLawCenter to oppose Texas' ban on medical care for trans youth, scheduled for September 1st.
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A new chapter begins! 🌈. Please join us in welcoming GLMA's new permanent executive director: Alex Sheldon! . Read more about Alex and their bold vision for GLMA here: #GLMA #Leadership #LGBTQHealth
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Today, the Florida Department of Health issued non-binding guidance opposing science-based gender-affirming care for youth. Once again, FL politicians are promoting unscientific propaganda as part of @GovRonDeSantis's ongoing agenda against transgender kids. #ProtectTransKids.
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GLMA’s 41st Annual Conference on LGBTQ+ Health is going virtual. Save the date for Sept. 28-30, 2023! Ready to share your expertise at the premier scientific conference on LGBTQ+ health? Our abstract portal is now open -> link in our bio. #LGBTQHealth #LGBTQHealthEquity #GLMA
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We know about the harm of LGBTQ “conversion therapy.” But what about the medical harm faced by intersex youth? Some docs still think it's okay to change sex traits of intersex kids by recommending surgeries to parents. Watch for #MyIntersexBody stories on #IntersexAwarenessDay!
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Today marks the beginning of LGBTQ Enrollment Week of Action. Please join GLMA and spread the word to help our clients, patients, friends, neighbors, and families #GetCovered by December 15th! Need help? Talk to an LGBTQ friendly assister:
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GLMA Gives Thanks for our incredible partners at the .@teganandsarafdn and was excited to join them in celebrating three years of advocacy work! #OurNightWithTSF
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It's a privilege to be able to make this choice while thousands of trans Floridians can't. We vow to continue doing all we can to use medical science and our members' healthcare expertise to fight this law and ensure lawmakers prioritize the health of trans youth.
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Congratulations to GLMA member and Health Professionals in Training (HPiT) co-chair @JaredBoot on a BIG weekend at the #APA2023 conference. Jared was a recipient of THREE awards, including the Transgender Research Award from @APADivision44!
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A milestone of progress for LGBTQ+ health! We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the AMA to advance LGBTQ+ health equity under Jesse Ehrenfeld’s leadership.
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Intersex people often have chromosomes that do not “match up” with their external genitalia. Chromosomes ≠ gender! Let intersex kids grow up and express themselves. #IntersexAwarenessDay #MyIntersexBody ✨
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"Sex workers are part of the solution. Sex workers, organized, have the power to create community norms." Thank you to @tamikahs66, @seanbland8, and Benjamin Brooks for your workshop "Decriminalizing Sex Work Is Critical to Ending the HIV Epidemic" at #GLMA2021!
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“If we can’t tell the truth about who our partners are, about the nature of our work, about who our families are, then we can’t expect health professionals to be able to accurately address any health issues that arise." - Alex Sheldon, GLMA Exec Director.
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Great news from Alaska! Thanks to @LambdaLegal and the plaintiffs for leading this fight🏳️⚧️
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California Providers! Please sign on to support #SB201 to ensure intersex folks can delay medically unnecessary procedures until they are able to provide meaningful consent. Click here to learn more & join the effort to say #DelayIsOkay!
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On #TransDayOfVisibility, we see you and appreciate you. Be visible with your healthcare providers and use our talking points at (Awesome graphic courtesy of @transstudent)
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Please welcome our 2019-2020 Board of Directors, including our Executive Officers installed at today’s annual membership luncheon! #GLMA2019
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Congrats to GLMA med student delegate @feelitinmysohl for her work as lead author on the @AmerMedicalAssn resolution leading to this important call to ban conversion therapy! GLMA has long worked with AMA on this issue and is excited to see Bri's work gain national attention!.
Glad to see this important voice join the fight to end a heartbreakingly harmful practice: . The American Medical Association has called for a nationwide ban on so-called "conversion therapy."
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Texas leaders are politicizing healthcare again. They're very good at that, and they do it to create fear and confusion. The simple truth is all the major health associations agree that gender-affirming care for youth is medically necessary care.
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Today, GLMA joined @pflag & individual families & medical providers in suing the State of Texas to block SB14 before it can go into effect 9/1. Read full press release: .#MedTwitter #ProtectTransYouth
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GLMA President Nick Grant, PhD, ABBP, accepted the Clarity Award on behalf of GLMA from Christina Patterson, PhD, LP, President of APA's Division 44, The Society for the Psychological Study of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
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We're celebrating #NationalNursesWeek and we want everyone to show their support for the #LGBTQ+ nurses who are putting their lives at risk as they fight #COVID19. RT to show the world you're standing with #LGBTQ+ #HealthcareHeroes!
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"Stop criminalizing sex work. I've consented to sex work my whole life. If anyone is a trafficker to Tamika, it is the capitalistic system." It is nothing less than an honor to hear from Tamika Spellman at #GLMA2021! #DecrimNow
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In partnership with @CastleConnolly we are proud to announce the release of the FIRST EVER Top LGBTQ+ Doctors List! Castle Connolly is widely known for their annual "Top Doctor" list, which recognizes outstanding physicians across various specialties.
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Today we celebrate #LGBTQ+ nurses! On #NationalNursesDay & every day, these #HealthcareHeroes deserve respect & gratitude as they fight #COVID19. With nearly 1/2 working in states where it’s legal to be fired based on orientation or identity, they need our support more than ever.
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GLMA is proud to present our annual Achievement Award to Aimee Stephens, Donald Zarda, and Gerald Bostock, who stepped forward to fight against employment discrimination on behalf of all LGBTQ Americans. We thank you for your courage! #GLMA2020 . (Screen cap from @TheAdvocateMag)
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The Supreme Court is NOT challenging Gavin Grimm’s victory in lower courts in his lawsuit over the right to use the restroom in his school. It's been an honor to support Gavin's case with an amicus brief from a healthcare perspective.
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@NBCNews @TrevorProject @MorningConsult reported on Oct. 5 that a majority of LGBTQ youth experienced symptoms of anxiety and depression during COVID-19. Almost a quarter of LGBTQ youth surveyed reported trouble accessing a therapist during this time.
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As #BiHealthMonth wraps up, we're thrilled to launch the GLMA Bi+ Health Professional Network listserv! Open to bi+ health professionals, researchers, students, & trainees, the listserv is for professional discussion, networking, & community building. Join
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We're now focused on creating high quality virtual programming for the second consecutive year. We look forward to the day we can bring our conference back to FL. Read our full announcement here:
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This week marks Transgender Awareness Week! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ @GLMA_LGBTHealth is proud to stand for trans inclusion in health care because we know firsthand that gender-affirming care saves lives. #transawarenessweek #transhealth #transhealthmatters
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GLMA applauds @AmerMedicalAssn for adopting new policies in support of LGBTQ health issues! As the only LGBTQ association represented within the AMA HOD, GLMA will continue to use this position to advance LGBTQ health policies within the AMA!
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Happy #PrideMonth from your friends at GLMA! Take time to celebrate you and everything awesome about your communities - today and every day! #Pride2019
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The presence of trans & nonbinary health providers within the health professional workforce is crucial for expanding access to affirming, comprehensive care for trans & nonbinary patients. Check out our featured providers & explore the Directory: #TDOV
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Are you an LGBTQ+ #HealthcareHero? We want to hear from you! We know that this is a hard time for everyone, especially healthcare workers that belong to the #LGBTQ+ community. Share your story and tag @GLMA_LGBTHealth, DM us, or click here👇🏽.
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Happy Nurse Practitioners Week to all our NP members and all the other NPs who partner with LGBTQ patients in health and wellness! Thank you for all that you do for our communities! #NPWeek
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On Intersex Awareness Day we celebrate the diversity of #intersex people. There are over 40 different variations that fall under the intersex umbrella—people with sex traits that fall outside of traditional notions of male and female bodies. #IAD2023 @interACT_adv
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“My two weeks as a disaster healthcare volunteer caring for patients with COVID-19 had greatly tested my nursing skills, my emotional and mental capacities, and physical well being.” - Fion
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We applaud HHS’s proposed rule to reinstate and expand federal regulations protecting LGBTQ+ patients from discrimination in healthcare, including protections for intersex people. Healthcare access for everyone in our communities!. Our statement:
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So excited to hear about all the great work from #QueerHealthHackathon! Congrats to @queerhealthcare and @teganandsarafdn for making this happen! #queerandcaredfor.
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What can allies do to support trans folks?.☑️ Don’t make gender assumptions.☑️ Respect requested terminology.☑️ Speak out in support of transgender people and transgender rights
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LGBTQ+ pre-med students, check out this @MSPA_National workshop by longtime GLMA member and 2019 GLMA Achievement Award winner @jessicahalem!
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"South Dakota's #HB1057 would criminalize crucial healthcare for trans kids & allow unnecessary, non-consensual surgeries on #intersex infants. It's a threat to the health & rights of children & lawmakers should vote #NoHB1057." - @hrw ➡️#protecttranskids
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Nearly 24,000 people in America take their lives with a gun every year—an average of 65 deaths a day. Today we #WearOrange to shine a light on this heartbreaking, and often preventable, public health crisis. @Everytown .#nationalgunviolenceawarenessday
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Urgent Deadline: Join GLMA's letter to support #SB201 and help promote intersex human rights in California by Wednesday, 1/8/20! Click here to read the letter and sign your name: @Scott_Wiener @eqca @ACLU_NorCal.
Our California bill to affirm intersex people's rights to make their own decisions about their bodies resumes in early JANUARY! More soon on #SB201 with @Scott_Wiener, @eqca, and @ACLU_NorCal. Do you have 5 minutes to add your voice? READ ON!
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Last but not least, please welcome HPiT Fellow Mollie Marr, PhD!. Mollie (she/her) is a 7th year MD/PhD student at @OHSUNews. Her dissertation examined the role of stress during pregnancy as a potential mechanism for the intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment.
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Intersex surgeries conform genitals or other sex traits to ideas about what a “male body” or “female body” is supposed to be. But intersex people have a right to make decisions about their own bodies. #IntersexAwarenessDay #MyIntersexBody ✨
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When humans develop, the same tissue will become either a clitoris or a penis. There is also a perfectly natural intersex spectrum of sizes inbetween. #IntersexAwarenessDay #MyIntersexBody ✨
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A huge win today for equality in healthcare!.
#BREAKING: A federal judge just granted an injunction in our case challenging the Trump administration’s health care discrimination rule. This injunction stops the administration’s invitation for providers to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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Please be sure to tell your LGBTQ patients and patients that regardless of the recent federal court decision on ACA, the exchanges are still OPEN for business and we will continue with Open Enrollment. There is no impact to your current coverage and your coverage in a 2019 plan.
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Call your representative NOW to vote "yes" on H. Resolution 124 in support of transgender troops! Click here for more info: #TransMilitaryBan #TransVisibilityWeek.
The House of Representatives is about to vote on a resolution to condemn Trump's #TransMilitaryBan!. Take a minute to contact your representative NOW. Ask them to vote "yes" on H. Res. 124 to support trans troops!
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In today's statement, GLMA President @galmayer condemned @HHSGov's "extremely harmful regulatory proposal that would encourage flagrant discrimination in healthcare against transgender people." Full statement here: #ProtectTransHealth.
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@margaretcho This #PrideMonth we've been celebrating #LGBTQ+ healthcare workers! Please join us in supporting these healthcare heroes with a RT and/or by recording your own message of solidarity using our rainbow mask Instagram filter:
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This week, we commemorate the sixth annual National Gun Violence Survivors Week, a time to acknowledge the tragic impact of America's gun violence crisis. #GVSurvivorsWeek @everytown
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On #IntersexAwarenessDay, GLMA renews its commitment to the right for all intersex individuals to determine when, and whether, to have surgeries to alter their bodies. We are here #4intersex today and every day; learn more from our friends at @interACT_adv and @IntersexJustice.👇.
We're counting down to #IntersexAwarenessDay on 10/26 by highlighting a new way allies can help intersex people EVERY DAY, in collaboration with @intersexjustice! 😍✨. See this pinned #thread for one reminder a day til 10/26, & peek at whole list here:
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Bisexuality is real, and bisexual people face health challenges at rates greater than their non-bisexual peers. Learn more during #BiHealthMonth, and use GLMA's Top 10 list for bisexual persons at (Amazing graphic below by @KateEstrop)
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We're so grateful to have amazing partners who are showing up for LGBTQ+ equality this month and beyond. Appreciation to FIGS for their partnership this Pride Month!.
This Pride month, we’re supporting LGBTQIA+ equality in healthcare with a $25K donation to the international organization @GLMA. Because finding Pride in FIGS is about finding visibility, change, authenticity and joy — every day of the year.
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Celebrating a Milestone! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce that the #LGBTQHealthcareDirectory now includes 2500 providers across the USA & Canada! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Check out affirming care providers near you: #InclusiveHealthcare #PrideInHealth @teganandsarafdn
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The @AMAFound has opened the 2nd cycle of the National LGBTQ+ Fellowship with an open call.for Letters of Intent! It's the first step in deciding the next institution to get a 4-year grant of up to $750,000 to create medical fellowships in LGBTQ+ health:
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2020 was a year of landmark advances for the health and dignity of intersex people. We applaud @IntersexJustice, @interACT_adv, and so many other advocates. So many wins to read about @autostraddle!.
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Are you passionate about advancing LGBTQ+ health equity? Take the next step in your career by joining the Board of Directors at GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality! .Learn more and apply today at:
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All donated blood is rigorously tested for any pathogens, including HIV. Countries around the world are facing an increasing shortage of blood supply. Is it time to lift the ban on gay men giving blood? #lgbtqhealth #gayhealth.
It’s 2020 and many gay men still aren’t allowed to donate blood. We look at the evidence and ask: do these rules make sense?
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@UclaUrology is pleased to announce their Fellowship in Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery, led by Dr. Gladys Ng, surgical director of the UCLA Gender Health Program. To learn more and apply by Feb. 15, visit
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In the last week of #NationalNursesMonth, we want to thank nurses and all #LGBTQ+ healthcare providers on the frontline fighting #COVID19. To the thousands of #HealthcareHeroes who continue to show up and keep our communities safe: we see you, we support you, we stand with you.
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"As medical schools serve a major gatekeeping role in diversifying the physician workforce and ultimately meeting the needs of vulnerable populations, there are a few ways in which medical schools can be actively engaged in improving TGNB visibility."
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#NewProfilePic Because we’re making sure the Q has its place in LGBTQ. #LGBTQ #queerandcaredfor #queer
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Nearly half of #LGBTQ+ #HealthcareHeroes live & work in states where it’s legal to be fired based on sexual orientation or gender identity (@WilliamsPolicy). We must make sure they're safe from discrimination as they fight #COVID19. Speak up and speak out against discrimination.
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It's International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia! Established in 2004, the date May 17th holds profound significance as the date of the World Health Organization's landmark decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. #IDAHOTB
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GLMA supports this petition to ensure students arrested for protesting racism and policy brutality are not denied undergraduate or graduate medical education. Please sign today!
1/ We at MSPA believe that it is vitally important for those venturing into the medical field to join the public outcry against police brutality and systemic racism. To that end, we are calling on AAMC and ACGME to clearly support students engaging in protests and other forms
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Happy #Pansexual Pride Day from all of us at GLMA! Pan people are our patients, our clients, our healthcare providers, our colleagues—our brilliant and loved community members.
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It's National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. New research from The @TrevorProject shows that LGBTQ youth who have been diagnosed with an eating disorder reported nearly 4x greater odds of attempting suicide than those who have not. #NEDAwareness .
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Are you passionate about advancing LGBTQ+ health equity? Take the next step in your career by joining the Board of Directors at GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality! Learn more and apply today at #healthequity #GLMA
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Wishing you warmth, light, and health this Hanukkah!
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@GLMA_LGBTHealth is proud to partner with the @teganandsarafdn an organization that shares our commitment to reducing health disparities in #LGBTQ communities. With the foundation’s Queer Health Access team, GLMA will re-envision our Provider Directory!
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