Entries by Aiden James Kosciesza

#Transhealthfail Exposes the Need for Transgender-Specific Training in Healthcare

When you experience discrimination, it’s easy to feel like you’re alone. The very nature of discrimination is isolating: the minority is singled out for insults, ridicule, or poor treatment from the majority, and for transgender people, the numerical difference between majority and minority is huge. A 2011 study put the U.S. transgender population at an […]

Reclaiming My Feminism

When I finally realized my gender identity around my junior year of college, one of the first things I did was attend a meeting of the women’s group on campus. It did not go as planned. It was not my first encounter with feminism. I had been taught about women’s liberation all my life. I […]