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List of LGBTQ+ Resources Last Updated: 18/07/23 (self.health)
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Resources gathered from beehaw.org , https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ and hexbear.net

Thank you to: @[email protected] for the amazing Resource Collection Thread @[email protected] for the International HIV PReP @[email protected] for the Hair loss recovery for Transfems guide

Comment with your favorite resources I missed here, I plan to revisit and edit with additional resources as time goes on.

Crisis Lines
Trevor Project Connect to a LGBTQ understanding crisis counselor 24/7, 365 days a year, from anywhere in the U.S. It is 100% confidential, and 100% free.
Trans Lifeline Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers. Call us if you need someone trans to talk to, even if you’re not in crisis or if you’re not sure if you’re trans.
Suicide Hotlines and Prevention Resources Around the World Hotlines available internationally
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE, online.rainn.org & rainn.org/es
LGBT Youth Hotline LGBT YouthLine is a *2SLGBTQ+ youth-led organization that affirms and supports the experiences of youth (29 and under) across Ontario.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.

Resources

Trans Lifeline Resources More than just the hotline, they have a great page linking to many resources, including but not limited to... ID Change Library, Community-Based Crisis Support Resources, A Binding Guide for All Genders, Microgrants for some legal and medical fees, and much more you can easily search.

The Trans Resistance Network Formed to ensure the survival of gender diverse people and families through strategic coordination of resources for relocation, alternative systems of gender-affirming care, mutual aid, and community defense.

Erin’s National Informed Consent Clinics Map Erin Reed’s informed consent map lists every informed consent hormone therapy clinic.

Rainbow Passage Providing transportation for individuals in harm's way, with a focus on bringing them to the Sanctuary States and Cities. Safely escorting individuals to communities with the necessary legal, financial, educational, and medical resources to meet their needs.

Rainbow Railroad Rainbow Railroad is a global not-for-profit organization that helps at-risk LGTBQI+ people get to safety worldwide. Based in the United States and Canada, we’re an organization that helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics

Elevated Access Elevated Access was launched in 2022 in response to the extreme healthcare bans being enacted in state legislatures. We are a non-profit organization that enables people to access healthcare by providing flights on private planes at no cost. Our volunteer pilot network transports clients seeking abortion or gender-affirming care across the United States.

Transgender Map This free website shows how to make a gender transition.It tells about gender identity and gender expression, as well as the social, legal, and medical ways to make a transgender transition.

Hudson's FtM Guide This Guide is intended to provide information on topics of interest to female-to-male (FTM, F2M) trans men, and their friends and loved ones. Non-trans men have also found the pages on men's grooming and clothing to be helpful. Transgender, cisgender, intersex, non-binary, genderqueer, questioning, and "just plain folks" are all welcome.

Gender Spectrum Gender Spectrum is a national organization committed to the health and well-being of gender- diverse children and teens through education and support for families, and training and guidance for educators, medical and mental health providers, and other professionals.

Trans Health Project The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund's Trans Health Project aims to ensure that all transgender and non-binary people can access the trans-related health care that they need.

Trans Resources Trans-Resources aims to help transgender, non-binary, and other gender non-conforming people find resources where they live. Our goal is to be a directory of advocacy organizations, legal resources, support & social groups, and other resources that servce the trans community.

LGBTQ Healthcare Directory The LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory is a project of the Tegan and Sara Foundation and GLMA – Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality. It is a free, searchable database of all kinds of doctors, medical professionals and healthcare providers who are knowledgeable and sensitive to the unique health needs of LGBTQ+ people in the USA and Canada.

UK Gender Kit Gender Construction Kit, the UK guide to changing things that are linked to gender.

Gender Dysphoria Bible The purpose of this site is to document the many ways that gender dysphoria can manifest, as well as the numerous forms of gender transition, in order to provide a guide for those who are questioning, those who are starting their transgender journey, those already on their path, and those who simply wish to be better allies.

Beehaw.org LGBTQ+ Wiki Parts of this page have been adapted from the Global Transgender Resources Registry, the Tildes ~lgbt wiki (to which one of our admins was a previous contributor), and Emi’s blahaj.zone thread

FtM Packer+ Spreadsheet Includes information on Binders, Packers, and More

nominal.naomi's research document A great document containing research documents related to trans health and more

/r/asktransgender wiki Provided below are a list of general resources to help everybody out.

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⚠️💗 List of health communities on Lemmy (Last update: Sept 1; Count: 102) (self.health)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by WhoRoger to c/health
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Last update: Sept 1; Count: 102

This is a continuously updated list of communities dedicated to health, or specific diagnoses, from all around the Lemmy network.

There are some disclaimers and notes below the list. Check them too.

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How to use links?

If you're having problems with some links (such as a "community not found" message), see the FAQ on this post. I had to remove the dual links due to the character limit.

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~General Health & Medicine:

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[email protected] (1)

[email protected] (2)

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~Disabilities & Accessibility:

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~Health Conditions:

Autism

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

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[email protected] (1)

COVID-19

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Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis

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Diabetes

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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

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Hyperhidrosis

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Kidney Disease

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Neurodegenerative Diseases

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Neurodivergence

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[email protected] (2)

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Pain, Migraine, Fibromyalgia

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TMJ

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Transplants

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[email protected] (1)

Women's Health:

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~Mental Health and Addiction:

General

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ADHD

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Addiction and Support

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[email protected] (Friends and Family of Persons with Addiction)

Anxiety

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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Bipolar Disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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CPTSD/PTSD

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Depression

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Men’s Mental Health

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~Other

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[email protected] (Dangerous Dusts, Toxins and Occupational Hazards)

Healthcare Professional Communities

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Healthy Eating:

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[email protected] (Calories In, Calories Out)

[email protected] (1)

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[email protected] (LoseIt: Lose the Fat)

Healthy Lifestyle:

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[email protected] (2)

[email protected] (Ofuro Japanese Soaking Tub) (2)

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Drugs (Warning: Some posts may promote drug use.)

spoiler[email protected]

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[email protected] (2)

 

Satire and Memes

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[email protected] (1)

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[email protected] (1)

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Notes:

  • I'm not vouching for any of these communities, check at your own discretion. Some of them are abandoned or inactive, so if you see one without activity that might be interesting, consider bringing it back to life and crosspost here. Communities with no content whatsoever aren't included.

  • Work in progress - let me know if you know of new communities that aren't in the list, or if you have other feedback.

(1) Kbin is a different network from Lemmy. Interactivity may be limited or delayed.

(2) These instances aren't federated with lemmy.world. To interact, you need to have an account on an instance that federates with them.

Important: Some instances may gravitate towards politics or philosophies different from your own. Inclusion of a health community of any instance does not mean endorsement of that philosophy.

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Young Gay Latinos See Rising Share of New HIV Cases, Leading to Call for Targeted Funding (kffhealthnews.org)
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Loneliness can increase stroke risk by up to 56%, finds research (www.theguardian.com)
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Transmasculine reproductive healthcare is rarely talked about. Let's change that. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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Novo Nordisk to build $4.1 billion North Carolina facility to boost output of Wegovy, Ozempic (www.cnbc.com)
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Experts: US hospitals prone to cyberattacks like one that hurt patient care at Ascension (kffhealthnews.org)
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In the wake of a debilitating cyberattack against one of the nation’s largest health care systems, Marvin Ruckle, a nurse at an Ascension hospital in Wichita, Kansas, said he had a frightening experience: He nearly gave a baby “the wrong dose of narcotic” because of confusing paperwork.

Ruckle, who has worked in the neonatal intensive care unit at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph for two decades, said it was “hard to decipher which was the correct dose” on the medication record. He’d “never seen that happen,” he said, “when we were on the computer system” before the cyberattack.

A May 8 ransomware attack against Ascension, a Catholic health system with 140 hospitals in at least 10 states, locked providers out of systems that track and coordinate nearly every aspect of patient care. They include its systems for electronic health records, some phones, and ones “utilized to order certain tests, procedures and medications,” the company said in a May 9 statement.

More than a dozen doctors and nurses who work for the sprawling health system told Michigan Public and KFF Health News that patient care at its hospitals across the nation was compromised in the fallout of the cyberattack over the past several weeks. Clinicians working for hospitals in three states described harrowing lapses, including delayed or lost lab results, medication errors, and an absence of routine safety checks via technology to prevent potentially fatal mistakes.

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Popular weight loss drug may help treat severe sleep apnea, new research finds (www.nbcnews.com)
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A popular obesity drug may help treat a dangerous disorder in which people struggle to breathe while they sleep, a new study finds.

Tirzepatide, the medication in the weight loss drug Zepbound and also the diabetes treatment Mounjaro, appeared to reduce the severity of sleep apnea along with reducing weight and improving blood pressure and other health measures in patients with obesity who took the drug for a year.

Eli Lilly and Co., the drug’s maker who paid for the research, has asked the Food and Drug Administration to expand use of the drug to treat moderate to severe sleep apnea, in which people stop and start breathing during sleep, a spokesperson said Friday. A decision is expected by the end of the year.

But an outside expert cautioned in an editorial that more research will be needed to tell if the drug can be used as “a sole treatment” for obstructive sleep apnea, which occurs when tissue in the throat relaxes and collapses during sleep, fully or partially blocking the airway. It affects an estimated 20 million Americans and can cause short-term issues such as snoring, brain fog and daytime sleepiness but also severe long-term issues such as heart disease, dementia and early death.

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Abortion clinics reinvented themselves after Dobbs. They're still struggling (www.usatoday.com)
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Bisexual and transgender adults report loneliness twice as much as straight adults: CDC (www.advocate.com)
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Missouri is breaking federal law by housing mentally ill in nursing homes, DOJ finds (www.stlpr.org)
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Bird Flu Pandemic 'Very Likely', Warns Former CDC Director (plantbasednews.org)
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Blisters from sunburn. Does it look bad? (lemmy.ml)
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I went in the sun Thursday around 90°F temperature and didn't put on sunscreen. Now I'm kind of feeling pretty bad.

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‘We’re Flying Blind’: CDC Has 1M Bird Flu Tests Ready, but Experts See Repeat of Covid Missteps (kffhealthnews.org)
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Gilead’s twice-yearly shot to prevent HIV succeeds in late-stage trial, found 100% effective (www.cnbc.com)
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Abortion is becoming more common in primary care clinics as doctors challenge stigma (www.kpbs.org)
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In lieu of standalone clinics offering abortions, or telehealth appointments where patients get abortion medication by mail, family doctors are offering an abortion option in a familiar setting.

This trend of primary care integrating medication or procedural abortions, usually in early pregnancy, is growing in states where abortion is legal. While there is little data on how common this is becoming, NPR heard from primary care doctors across the country who said they are expanding their practices to provide abortion care.

“There's no reason for this care to be siloed,” says Arnold, who is very public about her offerings, which include abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy and gender-affirming care. “I don't feel like it's any different than my management of diabetes or chronic pain or endometriosis — this is just a routine part of my day.”

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New Study Reveals Heightened Fear And Mistrust Of Health System in Black Community (newsone.com)
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Substance use experts are sounding the alarm on another addiction: gambling (www.statnews.com)
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Regular walking can reduce back pain recurrence, study finds (www.dw.com)
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A new study found that walking for half an hour five days a week made recurrences of lower back pain almost half as frequent. The authors said more focus on preventive care could lead to large future savings.

A study published in the medical journal The Lancet this week recommends regular walks as a cheap and easy way to potentially prevent recurring back pain. 

Trials showed that patients who went for half-hour walks five times a week and received coaching from a physiotherapist had fewer flare-ups than a control group. 

The researchers said patients also reported improved perceived quality of life and that the amount of time they took off work was reduced by almost half.

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Global alert issued over fake-Ozempic drugs (www.bbc.com)
submitted 4 days ago by MicroWave to c/health
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A global alert about fake Ozempic - which has become popular as a way of losing weight - has been issued by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The drug is sometimes known as a "skinny jab" despite its main purpose being a treatment for type-2 diabetes.

The WHO said the fake medicines could pose a danger to health.

The organisation advised people to source the drug only through reputable sources, such as a doctor, rather than obscure sites online or through social media.

The active ingredient in Ozempic - semaglutide - helps people with type-2 diabetes control the amount of sugar in their blood.

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‘Space hairdryer’ regenerates heart tissue in study (www.bbc.com)
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Gentle shockwaves could regenerate the heart tissue of patients after bypass surgery, research suggests.

A study of 63 people in Austria found those given the new treatment could walk further - and their hearts could pump more blood.

“For the first time, we are seeing the heart muscle regenerate in a clinical setting, which could help millions of people,” Prof Johannes Holfeld, from Innsbruck Medical University, said.

Larger trials of the device, dubbed a "space hairdryer" by researchers, are now planned to try to replicate the results in a wider group of patients.

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It's been 60 years since Freedom Summer, yet the fight for affordable, compassionate, and equitable health care is still going on (www.statnews.com)
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Miserable, Aggressive, Dull- How Heat Affects the Brain - The New York Times (Free article) (www.nytimes.com)
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Looks like critical thinking deteriorates above 72f/22c. Crime swings higher. Lowering your core temperature seems to help, even if you live in a climate with unavoidable heat.

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Bird flu pandemic risk high as cow cases appear and officials warn of humans’ role (www.theguardian.com)
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USDA report finds transmission likely happening when workers, cows, vehicles and equipment go to multiple farms

Bird flu cases among animals continue to rise as US officials warn about the role of humans in spreading the virus.

There are now 102 herds in the US with H5N1 cases, though given the prevalence of inactivated virus in commercially available pasteurized milk, experts believe the true number may be even higher.

Poultry operations have reported cases likely linked to dairy farms, indicating the virus may be spilling back from cows into birds. Nearly 97m domesticated birds in the US have been affected by the highly pathogenic influenza since 2022.

Although officials believe this outbreak was originally sparked by a single introduction from migratory birds into cows – for instance, via feed contaminated by bird feces – late last year, genomic analyses now suggest it is being spread between animals and farms by human activity, according a report released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday.

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Uninsured Americans Dropped by One-Quarter Over Five Years (www.bloomberg.com)
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