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Cervical Health Awareness Month: Trans Men and Genderqueer/Gender Nonconforming People
by The National Center for Transgender Equality, The National Center for Transgender Equality
January 10, 2012 - 9:36pm (Print)
January is cervical health awareness month, and NCTE wants to remind everyone that cervical health is a critical issue for trans men and genderqueer/gender nonconforming folks.
Reproductive Justice and Latino Heritage Month 2011: The Work of Harmony Santana
by Bianca I. Laureano, LatinoSexuality.com
October 2, 2011 - 10:07pm (Print)
A series for Latino Heritage Month which will highlight Latin@s who impact the reproductive justice movement in various ways.
Louisiana Sex Workers Will No Longer Be Labeled as Sex Offenders
June 29, 2011 - 12:20pm (Print)
Louisiana's era of forcing certain convicted sex workers to register as sex offenders appears to be over. Governor Jindall's office announced today that he had signed into law a bill, sponsored by Louisiana State Representative Charmaine Marchand Stiaes, that effectively moves prostitution convictions back to the level of misdemeanor.
Roundup: More Women Taking Emergency Contraception
by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check
April 28, 2011 - 10:20am (Print)
More women have taken emergency contraception now that it is available over the counter; White House to hold first-ever transgender issue meeting; and maternal mortality for African-American women in California skyrockets.
Why I Started a Campaign After the McDonald's Attack Video
by Adrian Leigh
April 28, 2011 - 8:11am (Print)
When I first saw the video of a young woman attacked in a McDonald's restroom, I was brought to tears. And then I turned to action.
Health Equity? Still Waiting But On the Right Track
by Dana Cropper Williams, National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD)
April 25, 2011 - 9:13pm (Print)
As an African-American female who has worked in public health for 20 years I am a little exhausted of the slow progress that the United States has made concerning health equity for minority populations.
Do These Pants Make Me (Look) Trans?
by Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com
March 25, 2011 - 8:42am (Print)
Gender and gender identity are complex and diverse: there's not just one way of being a girl, being trans gender, and those also aren't your only choices. So how do you figure out where you're at when the little boxes don't seem to fit?
Morning Roundup: Nancy Pelosi Fires Back
by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check
February 11, 2011 - 11:12am (Print)
Pelosi speaks out on the anti-choice assault on women's rights, a Thai airline seeks to hire transgender women as flight attendants, women use less epidural anesthesia during labor when they control their own pain relief, and a heart-breaking attack on women's shelters in Afghanistan.
Study: New Therapy Shows Promise for HIV Prevention
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
November 23, 2010 - 1:07pm (Print)
Long-awaited results were released today in the New England Journal of Medicine of a study on the effectiveness of a single daily tablet for preventing HIV transmission among those at high risk of infection.
Follow Jodi Jacobson on Twitter, @jljacobson
Top of the News: Afternoon Edition
by Amie Newman
November 10, 2010 - 6:40pm (Print)
Teen girls are facing discimination in athletics, a transgender inmate vows to continue lawsuit against the state, the Massachusetts House sees a growing number of anti-choice lawmakers and more in today's afternoon round-up!
