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American Doctors Report Lacking Training in Transgender-Specific Care. Most primary care physicians in the U.S. are willing to provide routine care to transgender individuals, but that doesn’t mean they are well prepared to do so, a small study suggests. Overall, 86 percent of doctors who responded were willing to provide...

A lot of people wonder what makes people transgender, the same way we ask what makes people gay, or what causes autism. The consensus scientific answer on all three is unsatisfyingly vague; there is no single reason, and what we can see appears to be a combination of multiple factors involving genetics, epigenetics,  oligogenetics , and...

Two decades ago, a black trans woman by the name of Rita Hester was stabbed multiple times in her first-floor apartment in Boston, Massachusetts. The police arrived at her apartment to find her in cardiac arrest. She was pronounced dead after she was transported to a local hospital. Two decades later, Rita Hester’s death has yet to be solved....

On Sunday morning,  the New York Times  published a report detailing a memo from the Trump administration that would  effectively erase federal recognition of trans and nonbinary gender identities . The Department of Health and Human Services would make changes to Title IX definitions of gender, only recognizing male...

Since Trump took office, his administration has systematically eroded legal protections for transgender Americans. > > Despite the fact that transgender people make up just three percent of the population, according to a  2017 GLAAD study , there is a concerted effort across the United States to limit our access to...

“Everyone needs to be alert,” said multiple security experts on multiple TV cable shows Wednesday, Oct. 24, after “live explosive devices” were sent to the Clintons, the Obamas, CNN, Rep. Maxine Waters and others repeatedly denounced as “enemies” by President Donald Trump at angry Republican rallies and on Twitter. The climate of...

Hello everyone, My name is Rain Nicole and welcome to my blog. Where I talk a little bit about myself, who I am, who I was, what I have gone through in my short 21 years. So pull up a seat, eat some popcorn and drink a soda as you read my story. Enjoy. So today I want to talk about what happens when I close my eyes and my brain shuts down...

Hello everyone my name is Rain Nicole, Welcome to part 2 of my Blog. "Becoming Rain." Today I wanted to talk about Gender Dysphoria and. So pull up a chair, eat some popcorn, drink a soda and enjoy reading a little bit of my back ground! As a child I never had Gender Dysphoria. Not in the same way I see and hear other Trans people having to...

Hello everyone! My name is Rain Nicole and welcome to my blog. Where I tell you about my past and experiences as well as the details of becoming Rain Nicole. So pull up a chair, eat some popcorn and drink a soda. Thanks for reading. Let's talk about my discovery form a moment. I discovered that I was trans on March 7th of 2017. Which is...

Hello Everyone. My Name is Rain Nicole. That is my chosen name anyway, my birth name is Joshua but.. Sooner or later that will be a dead name. I thought I might start a blog. Writing my experiences, put myself out there to be judged by the masses. So pull up a chair, eat some popcorn, drink a soda as you read my story. Bare with me I have no...