My personal and professional lives have always intertwined. It's messy. And beautiful. I'm honored to be one of a diverse group of 101 Johns Hopkins University doctoral alumni for the #100alumnivoices project. imagine.jhu.edu/phutures-alumn…

Thrilled and proud of my queer, trans husband ('Josh Cole Writes' on FB) for publishing his (first) memoir, Curveball: The Alabama Son They Never Saw Coming. Pre-order here! ellipse-heptagon-k3cz.squarespace.com/?fbclid=IwAR3r…

Please wear your masks! COVID is not over. 280 deaths in the last 7 days, but nothing in the news. 280 people is a plane load folks, every week. #COVID usafacts.org/visualizations…

🚨New study results presented at WPATH🚨

A large NIH-funded study of 316 #trans youth who received gender-affirming medical care found improvements in anxiety, depression, positive affect, and life satisfaction over the 2-year follow up period.

The WPATH SOC8 has been released, after 5 years of meetings, debate, writing, more debate and finally concensus. I'm so proud of these guidelines. Many thanks to the >100 authors who worked tirelessly to get them published - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A new Research Scientist position is open at Trevor!
jobs.lever.co/thetrevorproje…

Sometimes you just don’t want to read another academic journal article.

My newest publication on FSWs' acceptability of injectable, oral, and ring PrEP in Tanzania. 'Bring it [injectable] to us tomorrow! Today, even!'
dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjope…

Zambian trans man friend is calling for donated binders for trans masculine folx there, and advice on making their own locally. gc2b can you help?

Call for papers w/ Frontiers - Endocrinology, which I'm co-editing with LC.

We're looking for topics within the fields of Endocrinology and Transgender and Nonbinary Health.

Share if you know someone's work is on this. TY!

Info: frontiersin.org/research-topic… (due:Nov. 2, 2022)

The IAC - the International AIDS Conference is committed to elevating the voices of trans and gender diverse people this year.

🟥 16 pre-conference sessions and 33 conference sessions have been included.

Here's a list of TGD relevant sessions to attend! #AIDS2022

gate.ngo/trans-sessions…

Honored to be a part of this.

Let's showcase trans joy, trans love, trans success stories. Two boys found themselves, then they found each other. They don't write storybooks about boys like us, so we get to write them.Trans people get happy stories, too.

Jumping as new faculty & attending multiple spaces/directions with funders, journals, orgs, & cis leadership/scholars, I find myself re-amplifying key messages on addressing the gender disparity within transgender health field—sharing some here:

(centering trans scholars, ofc)

The NYT's horrible coverage of and fixation on trans people has been central to the progression of anti-trans bills and policies nationally. I have been trying to raise alarms about this for the past 6 years but the stakes could not be higher than they are now.

Excited to share my discussion on the state of trans research with Ghassan Hamra on Epidemiology Counts podcast.

'The applied learning component of many global health programs is one of the 'most colonial practices in education...'' Yep. We must do better.
magazine.jhsph.edu/2022/4-ways-de…

Honored to be featured as a justice builder alongside superstars like Nancy Kass for my #LGBTQ health work & as 1st out #trans faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins HBS magazine.jhsph.edu/2022/justice-b…

Denying puberty blockers is forcing boys to grow breasts and girls to grow facial hair.

So proud of doctoral candidate Erin Cooney for leading this with the #LITE team! Better #PrEP care for trans women, pls. Prevention-effective adherence trajectories among transgender women in... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…