My Halloween Costume this year

About me to new followers:

-Educator and Advocate for LGBTQ Health
-Trans masc queer person (17 months on T)
-Pediatric Hospitalist/Military Pediatrician in Texas
-Future Peds Endo hopeful
-I try to be kind

I love seeing the progress in phalloplasty. There's some really good work happening by Blair Peters, MD (he/they) on donor nerves.

Military Pediatricians will always have the best band-aids.

Me: *Talks about barriers in trans healthcare then remembers when I was told I talk too much about LGBT stuff*

Me: Sorry, I don't mean to be a broken record.

Coworker: Please, when you talk about this it gives me a chance to learn. Besides, we're all broken records.

Me:🥹

Add yet another professional medical organization coming out against criminalizing and banning gender affirming care for trans youth.

The American Nurses Association strongly opposes any policy that restricts gender affirming care.

The recent RSV wave has raised public awareness of viral bronchiolitis and brought back some dogmas about how we treat it.

If anyone has ever taught you to *never* give bronchodilators or steroids in viral bronchiolitis because 'they don't work,' then this thread is for you!

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