Tag Archives: Health
Gynecologists told to prepare to treat transgender patients
TweetThe American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology has come out with a new statement for their members: it’s time to prepare to work with transgender patients. To address the significant health care disparities of transgender individuals and to improve their access to care, ob-gyns should prepare to provide routine treatment and screening or refer them [...]
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Quick Hit: On teets, tots and spats
TweetOur own Jessica Valenti has a must-read about how shaming women who can’t or don’t want to breastfeed — and choose to use formula — is really fucking problematic (something she’s experienced recently): I support breastfeeding women – long before I had my daughter I was blogging about the heinous lack of resources for breastfeeding [...]
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Crisis Propaganda Centers in the NY Times
TweetToday in the New York Times, Katie Stack writes about her first hand experience with Crisis Pregnancy Centers during her junior year of college. We’ve talked before about how CPCs pretend to be centers where women who are pregnant can come to consider all of their options, but are actually anti-choice fronts. What Katie found [...]
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I Had HPV and Lived to Tell the Tale
TweetAs a follow-up from Maya’s post yesterday and for #HPVDay today, this is a guest post by Bryce Covert, a writer and editor who works on feminism, economic equality, and progressive politics. You can find her work here. I was 24 when I found out that my health insurance would cover the full cost of [...]
Dangerously misinformed article on eating disorders posted on Muscle and Fitness website