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LGBTQIA Well-Being & gender identityarticles

Below are the best articles we could find on LGBTQIA Well-Being and gender identity.

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More than 1 Million Nonbinary Adults Live in the U.S., a Pioneering Study Finds

The U.S. Census doesn’t ask about gender identity. Until now, no population estimate of nonbinary LGBTQ adults in the United States existed.

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New Research Documents the Severity of LGBTQA+ Conversion Practices—and Why Faith Matters in Recovery

New research reveals the harms of religion-based LGBTQA+ conversion practices are more severe than previously thought. All survivors needed help balancing the relationship between their LGBTQA+ identity and their faith, family and culture.

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Welcome to Body Week

We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.

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How to Find an L.G.B.T.-Friendly Pediatrician

Your child’s doctor can offer support when it comes to gender identity and sexual orientation and how they relate to body image, body changes, mental and emotional health, and behavioral patterns.

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Why Our Gender Identity Language Isn’t Enough

Melissa Faliveno reflects on the insufficiencies of words like “bisexual” and “queer.”

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Have We Underestimated the Harm Caused by Low Self-Esteem?

Low self-esteem is the prime driver of self-harm among gay and lesbian students.

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Keeping Faith: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Spirituality

Many of us are raised to follow a particular religion, and many of those religions have some negative messages about sexual and gender diversity.

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This Is America: How Society’s Views on Gender Impact Relationships

For this edition of This Is America, two nonbinary people opened up about their journeys in relationships and finding their identities, a narrative that is largely unfamiliar and under-researched in a country that continues to diversify with time.

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Veterans Can Now Identify as Transgender, Nonbinary on VA Medical Records

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough announced Wednesday that his department added the options of transgender male, transgender female, nonbinary and other, when veterans select their gender, in medical records and healthcare documentation.

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With ‘No Fats, No Femmes,’ Fatima Jamal Aims for More than Just Visibility and Representation

“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”

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