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The LGBT community needs a comprehensive health study.

August 15, 2017 compassq Comments Off on The LGBT community needs a comprehensive health study.

Any sufficiently large and well-defined community is likely to have health concerns that disproportionately affect it, and LGBTQ people are no exception. Some problems have had an unmistakable impact on the gender and sexual-minority population, HIV/AIDS being an especially obvious example. But we still lack a comprehensive understanding of the ways that being an LGBTQ person can influence one’s overall health, or of health disparities within the LGTBQ community itself.

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Transgender rights find support from some religious conservatives.

August 14, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Transgender rights find support from some religious conservatives.

Transgender rights activists emphasize that they belong to a minority that’s defined by a gender identity that is different from that typically associated with their assigned sex at birth. This transgender identity presupposes that ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ are innate psychological states that are intrinsic in the human subject, conceptualized as things akin to hair color or skin pigmentation.

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Starve the gay away!

August 13, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Starve the gay away!

A Liverpool church which offered a “cure” for homosexuality through a “dangerous” three-day starvation programme was uncovered by an ECHO investigation. The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, which has a branch on Breck Road, Anfield, was found offering gay people the chance to “cure” themselves of their homosexuality through a relentless prayer session involving three days without food or water.

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Huge demand prompts gender reassignment surgery training

August 12, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Huge demand prompts gender reassignment surgery training

The surge in demand for transgender surgeries in the United States has triggered a New York City hospital to launch a program to train doctors to perform gender reassignment procedures. Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery opened early last year in Manhattan and has since operated on roughly 350 patients. Dr Jess Ting, the center’s director of surgery, said the team operates on nearly four patients a week.  

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“The Gay Man’s Guide to Open and Monogamous Marriage.”

August 12, 2017 compassq Comments Off on “The Gay Man’s Guide to Open and Monogamous Marriage.”

I had the opportunity to talk with psychotherapist and author, Michael Dale Kimmel, about his new book, “The Gay Man’s Guide to Open and Monogamous Marriage.” Having written a book of my own on modern marriage, I am particularly interested in how Kimmel not only provides a necessarily specific guide for male-male marriages, but also how this wisdom can be utilized by all couples, regardless of gender.