GenderLab

The couple that slays together stays together 🥰🫶
Since y'all liked my pic, here's the full outfit.. with sparkle heels! It was amazing seeing everyone at the Vanguard Ball. Some amazing people got recognition for some critically important work for 2S/LGBTQIA+ people. Also, thanks to Meika Grimm for the work she does for all the LGBTQ/2S people she encounters professionally & personally. She does so much behind the scenes that makes a difference.💖🌈

Summer options that feel good and look good!

This is a great list put together by Stevie Bees so you can do your own research and browsing.
While we can't officially endorse any brand, we believe it is important to share information about companies that provide gender inclusive swimwear for everyone to feel warm-weather euphoria and empowerment.

What are some ways you express yourself in summer?

"On Thursday, the Daily Mail reported that a new "landmark study" from the Netherlands concluded that being transgender was "just a phase" and that most children "grow out of it." News of the study was widely reported on Twitter by conservative accounts, with tweets about the Daily Mail’s reporting of the study garnering tens of millions of views. Unfortunately, the headline fails a fact check: the study was not about transgender individuals, but rather on people who sometimes express dissatisfaction with their s*x for a variety of reasons entirely unrelated to being transgender."

It's official -- we're a non-profit! 🥳
We're focusing on the first phase to open our doors and will be posting more details about our goals and how we plan to reach them on our blog. Follow us on social media & share our posts, join our newsletter, or be a hero and donate to our cause!
Two-Spirit / Transgender and Gender Diverse individuals are currently being targeted nationwide with bans on access to care. We stand with medical professionals who reiterate that access to affirming care, trained practitioners, and a supportive environment is key to the health of 2/TGI individuals.

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2022 TransPride Pittsburgh Health & Wellness Conference
Free attendance for community members & caregivers!
Register:
https://tinyurl.com/yckf259v

"Regulating Healthy Gender: Surgical Body Modification among Transgender and Cisgender Consumers
Abstract
Few bodies consistently portray natural or unaltered forms. Instead, humans inhabit bodies imbued with sociocultural meanings about what is attractive, appropriate, functional, and presentable. As such, embodiment is always gendered. The social, extra-corporeal body is a central locus for expressing gender. Surgical body modifications represent inherently gendered technologies of the body. But psychomedical institutions subject people who seek gender-crossing surgeries to increased surveillance, managing and regulating cross-gender embodiment as disorderly. Using mixed research methods, this research systematically compared transgender and cisgender (non-transgender) people’s experiences before, during, and after surgical body modification. I conducted a content analysis of 445 threads on a message board for an online cisgender surgery community, an analysis of 15 international protocols for transgender-specific surgeries, and 40 in-depth interviews with cisgender and transgender people who had surgery. The content analysis of the online community revealed similar themes among cisgender and transgender surgery users. However, detailed protocols existed only for transgender consumers of surgery. Interview findings showed that transgender and cisgender people reported similar presurgical feelings toward their bodies, similar cosmetic and psychological motivations for surgery, and similar benefits of surgery. For both cisgender and transgender people, surgery enhanced the inner self through improving the outer gendered body. Despite these similar embodied experiences, having a cisgender gender status determined respondents’ abilities to pursue surgery autonomously and with institutional support. Ultimately, this research highlights inequalities that result from gender status and manifest in psychomedical institutions by identifying the psychosocial impacts of provider/consumer or doctor/patient interactions, relating gendered embodiment to regulatory systems of authority, and illuminating policy implications for clinical practice and legal classifications of s*x and gender."

Regulating Healthy Gender: Surgical Body Modification among Transgender and Cisgender Consumers Few bodies consistently portray natural or unaltered forms. Instead, humans inhabit bodies imbued with sociocultural meanings about what is attractive, appropriate, functional, and presentable. As such, embodiment is always gendered. The social, extra-corporeal body is a central locus for expressing...

Do you want to make a difference? Become a Board Member for GenderLab, inc!

We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about uplifting the lives of transgender, gender expansive, inters*x, and two-spirit people through health care, resources & workshops.
Apply today at
https://GenderLab.us/careers

Are you thinking about Metoidioplasty or Phalloplasty?
Please complete this survey!

Who - Anyone who is a U.S. resident, has had, is thinking about having, or has decided not to have masculinizing ge***al gender affirming surgery (GAS). Must be 18 years or older.

What - 25-30 minute online survey to explore: Past & future gender affirming medical care GAS decision-making & access, Physical & Mental health, Quality of life
Option to sign up for a 90-minute Zoom focus group in early 2022 with financial compensation.

Why - The results will help develop decision support for others considering masculinizing ge***al gender affirming surgery.

INTERESTED? Please follow the link or the QR code below

https://tinyurl.com/GenderAffirmingCareSurvey

Contact
[email protected] with questions

A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Gender Health Program
Funded by NIDDK R21-DK124733-01

GenderLab, Inc. is actively seeking medical doctors / GAHT doctors, and/or physician partners! Contact us at [email protected] or visit our careers page at genderlab.us/careers

While we're starting up we're open to part-time, contract, or partnership options and hope to extend this role to full-time when we open our physical office in Upland.

GenderLab, Inc. is actively seeking medical doctors / GAHT doctors, and/or physician partners! Contact us at [email protected] or visit our careers page at genderlab.us/careers