Gender & Sexuality

Current Extremist Efforts to Curtail Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

Written by Nikitha Balaji, AMSA LGBT+ Health Coordinator for Gender & Sexuality Action Committee and incoming M1   Current Extremist Efforts to Curtail Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Youth On Friday, February 10th, the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine confirmed a discriminatory and politically motivated rule which will prohibit physicians in Florida from...

Transgender Healthcare and Mental Health: Where We Are Today

By: Oscar Cazares, 2020-2021 AMSA WSL Programming Coordinator Oscar Cazares is a senior majoring in Psychology and Biology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.   June 2021, Pride month, brought some great news to the LGBTQ+ community, as the U.S. Department of Education announced Title IX will now cover the prohibition of discrimination...

Maternal Mortality: A Bigger Problem than You May Think 

By: Zoreed Mukhtar 2019—2020 Global Health Policy Coordinator & Health Care for All Steering Committee Member    When you hear of maternal mortality, you may think that it is a foreign concept that only occurs in parts of Asia or Africa. The harsh reality is that in the developed world, the United States has the...

Should medical schools do more to foster an unbiased learning environment?

By: Julie K. Silver, MD In 2017, for the first time ever, women made up the majority of first year medical students in the United States. Although this is wonderful progress, there continue to be many challenges for all physicians who come from one or more underrepresented groups. For example, there have been many female physicians...