AUTHOR JODIE PATTERSON’S PATH TO RADICAL PARENTING & RAISING A TRANSGENDER CHILD: Author and HRC Board Co-chair Jodie Patterson (@jodie_georgiany, she/her) spoke about her book ‘Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope’ and her path to LGBTQ+ inclusive parenting. More from SheKnows.
GENDER-AFFIRMING HORMONE THERAPY FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH CAN HELP SAVE LIVES, STUDY FINDS: The use of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is has been linked to lower rates of depression, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary youth, according to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health on Tuesday. More from TIME.
TIKTOK, SOCIAL MEDIA APPS GUESS IF PEOPLE ARE LGBTQ+. HOW?: “Platforms like TikTok pick up on your passive behaviors, like the amount of time you stay on a video before scrolling onward, to optimize content they think you’ll be interested in,” says Gregory Serapio-García, a PhD candidate in the department of psychology at the University of Cambridge in England. “Therefore, someone who doesn’t know that they’re LGBTQ, but unconsciously spends more time viewing queer and queer-adjacent content could be tagged as queer without actively engaging with queer content.” More from USA Today.
WHY WE DON’T KNOW MORE ABOUT VIOLENCE AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE: “It was up to piecing together a few things to even uncover that this was a trans person who had been killed,” said HRC Senior Vice President for Programs,…
