Elijah Castle (they/he)

@transknowledge_

gender affirming surgery researcher and trans community member/advocate, pro- info-sharing 🏳️‍⚧️ all views my own

New York, NY
transknowledge.me
Unit: febrer de 2020
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    Are you preparing to have ? See if you are eligible for a research study with NYU to help us improve patient-centered care!

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    Thanks for the shout out ! This is of course a brief overview to familiarize clinicians with the many identities terms (and their many contexts) relevant to gender affirming surgery and not meant to be final or exhaustive.

    Brilliant etymology flowchart of evolving language relevant to gender-affirming care (and LGBT communities broadly). By Kloer et al, and appears in the GAS special edition of Journal of Gynecologic Surgery.
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    Is this your job? Senior Social Worker - Gender Affirmation Surgery

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    One of the harms of weight-based medical practice is if we see a patient with a “normal” weight/BMI, we miss acting on the body’s signs that they’re getting inadequate nutrition, like amenorrhea. Irregular periods should not be ignored. We need to listen to patients’ bodies.

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  5. 6 d’ag.

    .. and that providers should treat fat patients kindly (good). it also pathologizes fatness (bad) as a problem that needs to be solved (bad). ultimately the message that BMI and weight are not accurate predictors of overall health are great. so, good try, fell a little short.

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    this article had the potential to be so good and missed the mark! it does address how weight stigma negatively impacts patients (good), the mythology around personal responsibility for fatness (good), the problematic use of BMI (good), ...

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    New episode! THE BODY MASS INDEX wasn't designed to assess health and was never supposed to be applied to individuals. So how the hell did it end up in every doctor's office in the country?

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    Are you preparing to have ? See if you are eligible for a research study with NYU to help us improve patient-centered care!

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  9. 26 de jul.

    comedy writing has turned out to be useful in working on medical literature most specifically when generating title ideas.

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  10. 23 de jul.

    trans-led work is vital to changing the paradigm of trans health practice and research; info sharing and community is so important to me both professionally and personally!

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  11. 15 de jul.

    this is happening TONIGHT!

    free webinar from the NYU gender-affirming surgery program on and with Drs. and ! register and send in questions at
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    13 de jul.

    Congratulations to Dr. Bluebond-Langner for coming on at as Associate Editor in addition to her Section Editor position at PRS Global Open!!! The future of plastic surgery is indeed bright.

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    Welcome to our new PRS Editorial Board members: Rachel Bluebond-Langner is joining us as an Associate Editor, and John YS Kim is succeeding Don Lalonde as our CME Consulting Editor. The future of PRS is bright with Rachel and John and all of our great Editorial Board Members.
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    9 de jul.

    🗞 BREAKING NEWS! 🗞 CATS Senior Fellow spoke with about the dark side of new trans telehealth platforms. Read the full story here:

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    8 de jul.

    trans prisoners have been struggling for years to obtain hormones and surgery. in response, DOCs across the country have sought to prove the care isn't medically necessary - and hired one particular psychiatrist to back them up. my feature for

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    7 de jul.

    dare to dream of your self and others outside of a juridico-medical framework of disciplinary prohibition, it’s only healthy.

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  16. 8 de jul.

    this is happening in 1 week! register if you haven't already, link below.

    free webinar from the NYU gender-affirming surgery program on and with Drs. and ! register and send in questions at
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    7 de jul.

    if you don’t trust trans people to make decisions about their own lives, I’m here to say you have bad politics.

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    2 de jul.

    There's nothing as trans as biological sex, just ask a seagull, or Darwin. My latest:

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    1 de jul.

    The significance of a trans woman of color going to Hopkins as a professor, not a research subject, is one I am proud to take on, in all its complication.

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