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How Technology Can Reduce Isolation for LGBTQ Elders

Today we are all adapting to the complications of COVID-19 and its impact on our daily life. As we abide by current “stay-at-home” orders, we are learning how this reality may affect others in our communities. Researchers have found that social isolation and the subsequent feelings of loneliness can be lethal. The AARP Foundation put some perspective on this when it announced that social isolation can cause similar health effects to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.  While we are all experiencing some level of isolation, the difficulty truly is compounded for some at-risk communities. Perhaps these feelings are no greater than for our […]

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Long-acting Injection Beats Truvada Pill in HIV Prevention Trial

GlaxoSmithKline said an injection every other month of its cabotegravir drug was shown to avert an HIV infection more effectively than Gilead’s daily Truvada pill, potentially giving its ViiV unit a foothold in HIV prevention. The drug trial involving men who have sex with men was stopped early by an independent monitoring board after cabotegravir was found to be 69 percent more effective than the current standard of care, Truvada, the British drugmaker said on Monday. But the market segment GSK is eyeing is about to become more competitive as cheaper generic versions of Truvada are expected to be launched […]

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School District is Making Sure Trans Students will always be Referred to by Their Name and Pronouns

Trans students in Philadelphia have been assured that their correct name and pronouns will always be used, as the city’s school board moves to address issues thrown up by coronavirus. In Philadelphia, trans students already have the right to be addressed according to their wishes. After a landmark policy was passed in 2016, trans students in the state are also backed in using the bathroom and playing on the sports team that corresponds to their gender identity — whether or not they have their parents approval or have taken steps to medically transition. SPONSORED CONTENTWhat Really Happens When a Conjoined Twin Dies and […]

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US Navy Grants Waiver for Trans Troop to Serve as their True Gender in Blow to Trump’s Ban

A transgender service member in the US Navy has been granted a waiver to present as the correct gender for the first time since Trump’s trans military ban became law. Trump’s infamous ban came into force in April 2019, almost two full years after the president first announced his intention to exclude all trans people from the military. The Navy confirmed that a trans service member has been granted a waiver in a statement provided to CNN on Friday (May 15). “The acting secretary of the Navy has approved a specific request for exemption related to military service by transgender persons and persons with gender dysphoria,” […]

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Friendship, Interrupted: Disconnection in the Era of COVID-19

My phone buzzed the other day with a long missive from a friend to a group Facebook chat we share with my husband and his fiancé. Earlier in the day, he had invited me and my husband over for dinner at their apartment. In the spirit of social distancing, I responded by suggesting maybe we do something outdoors—perhaps a picnic or a walk in the park? He was furious. He felt like we were avoiding their “COVID germs.” After a series of angry messages, he left the group chat—the digital equivalent of a gauntlet-drop. I looked at my husband, speechless. […]

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News Outlets Backtrack after ‘Deadnaming’ Transgender Woman in Obituary

Following the death of Aimee Stephens — the transgender woman at the center of a high-profile LGBTQ discrimination case pending before the Supreme Court — a different name appeared in several news articles announcing that she had died Tuesday. The New York Times, The Associated Press and the Detroit News were among the media outlets that published Stephens’ former legal name, the male name she had used prior to her gender transition in 2013. The publication of her previous name, colloquially referred to as “deadnaming,” drew swift and fierce reaction from LGBTQ rights groups and advocates. “It serves no purpose of integrity […]

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World Health Organization Says ‘We have Come to Terms’ with HIV, Missing the Glaringly Obvious

A World Health Organization (WHO) official said society has “come to terms” with HIV, but he missed a glaringly obvious point. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies programme, said at a conference Wednesday (May 13) that COVID-19 may “never go away” and referred to the HIV epidemic, which took hold in the 1980s. “[COVID 19] may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away,” Ryan said. “HIV has not gone away but we’ve come to terms with the virus and we have found the therapies and we have found the prevention methods, and people don’t […]

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The woman who Brought the First trans Rights Case to the Supreme Court, has Died

Aimee Stephens, the woman who brought the first-ever transgender civil rights case to the Supreme Court, has tragically died. Stephens, 58, had kidney disease and had been receiving hospice care at home in recent weeks. She died at home this morning, according to her brother-in-law John Pedit. Her case was one of a trio of LGBT+ cases the Supreme Court heard on October 8, which between them could determine whether millions of LGBT+ workers are protected under the US’s most powerful federal workplace anti-discrimination law, or whether it is legal to fire people on the basis of their identity. In Stephens’ case, […]

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Pope’s ‘Robin Hood’ Wired Money For Food To Struggling Transgender Sex Workers

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When the coronavirus lockdown left a group of transgender sex workers in a beach town near Rome without work, they turned to a local Catholic priest for help to buy food. But his parish’s resources were already stretched by the health crisis so the priest turned to the cardinal known as “the Pope’s Robin Hood” who runs the Vatican charities. He wired money to the parish for them. “I don’t understand why this is getting so much attention,” Cardinal Konrad Krajewski told Reuters by phone on Thursday. “This is ordinary work for the Church, it’s normal. This is how the […]

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Republican Governor Launches Supreme Court bid to Deny Trans Prisoner Surgery

Idaho governor Brad Little, the person responsible for some of America’s most transphobic laws, has appealed to the Supreme Court to avoid paying for a transgender inmate’s gender confirmation surgery. Little filed a petition after being ordered to provide surgery for 31-year-old Adree Edmo, a trans woman who is being housed in a men’s facility in Idaho. She is serving 10 years for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy when she was 22, and is not eligible for parole. Edmo was diagnosed with gender dysphoria while in prison and her condition has grown so severe that she has reportedly attempted to […]

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