Transgender Americans have seen big changes to their health care in the last 18 months. While medical and surgical interventions for young trans patients under age 19 are now banned by the federal government, leading to policy shifts at health systems across the Commonwealth, more subtle changes to adult transgender care are surfacing, too, including […]
It took two years and four multi-day hospitalizations before Kenny Belew, 47, finally knew what left him writhing in pain, his gut raw and inflamed, his midsection almost comically distended. “I looked like I was pregnant,” says Belew, of Palmyra, recalling the moment just before he was carted off by ambulance for a nine-day hospital […]
“Don’t be a dick.” That’s the ask from Kari Anderson Miller, a former Greenbrier Elementary School teacher and Peace Corps alumna who started the nonprofit International Neighbors a decade back. Her initial intent—to tether newly resettled refugees in Charlottesville to community members who’d help them adjust—meant to ease newcomers into their first exciting, bewildering, sometimes […]