For Pride month this year let’s bring back the mess.

Show me flamboyant outfits.

Bring me amateur drag queens and kings.

Strip the polish and the varnish of trying to get society to accept us.

And let’s just be.

Kentucky has one of the worst active anti-trans laws in the country.

Our trans fam deserve better.

I’ll keep showing up, speaking out and standing up for and with you.

#health #wellness #trans #trans gender #trans rights

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PAs are burdensome and delay treatment. A survey of US physicians found 82% experienced treatment abandonment due to denials, causing serious harm to patients. 2/3 reported ineffective initial treatment due to PA #PriorAuthorization ASCO #ASCO23 shorturl.at/eqwSU #lcsm

I am getting increasing amounts of desperate messages from people in Florida as adults who have been denied or withdrawn from gender affirming care are experiencing the effects. It's a health crisis and there has been so little reporting on it.

I hurt so much for them.

Misgendering has started to give me a different feeling living in Texas.

Fear.

All it takes is for one wrong person to hear and decide to act on the hate.

Two years on T. I’ve gained weight. My shoulders are broader. I now need to shave my face every other day. Despite the country and all its new laws and policies, I have no regrets. I am who I’ve always been: CPT(P) Riordan Ledgerwood, MD.

Today was a bad day to come back and check my Twitter.

I just wanna highlight and celebrate Ben Haseen, MD (He/Him) 🏳️‍⚧️ and Dr. Ben today! You got it!

Rep. Zephyr is set up on a bench just outside the House chamber this morning, voting remotely. She’s barred from entering the chamber or debating on bills. #mtleg #mtpol

This is literally what fascism looks like.

An elected official the government doesn't like is prevented from participating in making the law. And people who show up to demand their representative do her DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED job are removed by riot Police.