International Transgender Day of Visibility 2023
A collection of Voices: Lived Experiences and blogs from the Neurology® Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) specialty site.
Voices: Lived Experiences
Navigating the Labyrinth of Medicine and My Gender
As health care providers, we have the ability to influence how inclusive our clinics, hospitals, and workplaces are for gender minorities. Sometimes it astonishes me how complicated the medical system makes this out to be.
My Authentic Voice: Expanding the Sound Between Man and Woman
Now, I hope more of us make the difficult decision to be ourselves visibly and to stop conforming to a gender binary that is holding us back from recognizing the true beauty and diversity of gender and sexuality. We need more nonbinary voices speaking out publicly.
The Necktie in Professional Dress Codes: An Outdated Symbol of Masculine Oppression
Because in authenticity, I have found inspiration, strength and passion in leadership. And when you have these qualities, there is no longer reason for dominance and no longer room for complicity or silence.
Transitioning in Happy Valley
Coming out professionally and transitioning was relieving, wonderful, enabling, and ultimately immensely helpful in enhancing my abilities to be a much better neurologist. My mental and emotional loads were freer to focus better and connect with others.
Editor's Blogs
A Modern Hippocratic Oath Requires Multidisciplinary Practice and Cultural Humility
Z Paige L'Erario, MD, NYS, CRPA/CPS-p, Mima Akinsanya, DO and Sasha Alick-Lindstrom, MD, FAAN, FACNS, FAES
As physicians, we took an oath to minimize harm and injustice toward our patients. This includes the harm caused by our implicit biases, or the unconscious preconceptions founded on learned assumptions regarding another person’s identity group(s).
Voice Training Is a Medical Necessity for Many Transgender People
Bridges to other disciplines –such as speech-language pathology– are imperative for neurologists to build in order to ensure our future success in an increasingly diverse world and workforce.
Group Blog From the Gender Equity Working Group: How the LGBTQI Section of the American Academy of Neurology Plans to Help the Transgender Patient Feel Less Like a Fascinoma
Most of us have likely cared for a gender minority patient. If we didn’t realize this, because our gender minority patients likely chose to not disclose this information to us, we must ask ourselves “how can we do better to make the clinical environment more comfortable, more affirming, and safer for transgender and nonbinary patients to openly identify their gender minority status to us in clinical and research settings?”
A Preventable Trauma: The Urgent Need to Expand Gender Diversity in Neurologic Health care
We are at the precipice of an emerging professional and public health care crisis within neurology. We are at a time when the number of Americans who self-identify as transgender is quickly increasing; as many as one in fifty members of Generation Z are transgender. However, we do not have the infrastructure or training necessary to accommodate this incoming surge of gender-expansive patients into our neurologic practices.
