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Gender Identity Project

ASJA Receives Grant for National Reporting Project

The American Society of Journalists and Authors was pleased to receive a grant in 2018 from the National Institute of Health Care Management Foundation for a national reporting project on the topic of Gender Identity: What's the Cost?

The grant provided an opportunity for 15 professional writers to receive mini-grants from ASJA for reporting on the topic of Gender Identity and LGBTQ+ health. 

Below are links to articles published by those writers to date. For a full report on the grant project, please click here.

Madison magazine (cover story):

https://www.channel3000.com/madison-magazine/city-life/the-person-they-were-meant-to-be/987783412?fbclid=IwAR02Fl7_Jdv7YU1K2EnGhatofw1KHDcIFHeetRgY3_jl-dCnIfoM5B7wX-U 

Magazine cover, magazine spread

Chicago Health:
https://chicagohealthonline.com/mental-health-services-homeless-lgbtq-youth/ 

Columbus Monthly:
http://www.columbusmonthly.com/lifestyle/20181119/caring-for-transgender-youth 

Your Teen magazine for Parents: 
https://yourteenmag.com/health/teen-sexuality/safe-sex-education 

Teen Vogue: 
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-trauma-affects-queer-and-trans-youth

Pine Tree Watch:
https://pinetreewatch.org/students-dealing-with-gender-issues-trust-great-allies-at-school/

The Progressive: 
http://progressive.org/dispatches/for-trans-college-students-health-care-180618/

Managed Health Care Connect (a trade publication):
https://www.managedhealthcareconnect.com/article/how-new-hhs-policies-could-exacerbate-social-determinants-health

New England Psychologist
http://www.nepsy.com/articles/leading-stories/isolation-and-lgbtq-youth-social-psychological-and-financial-implications/

Everyday Health
https://www.everydayhealth.com/stds/stigma-stds-mental-health-lgbtq-youth-whats-connection/

Medium.com
https://medium.com/s/the-future-of-flesh/toward-a-better-future-for-transgender-health-care-a691b04041b2

Intomore.com
https://www.intomore.com/impact/sad-brown-and-gay-lets-talk-about-queer-and-trans-mental-health-in-the-south-asian-diaspora

 

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