Alex Stern
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The secret way some got a gender-neutral Pa. driver’s license
Trans and nonbinary Pennsylvanians got gender-neutral markers (“X” or “U” instead of “M” or F”) long before PennDOT said they could.
Air Date: August 29, 2019
Listen 13:32Forging family through adoption
Tara and Alan Atchison couldn’t have biological children. Here’s how they made a family anyway.
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Listen 06:53Times have changed. Is sex ed ready?
The LGBTQ and #MeToo movements are shifting our cultural attitudes. Is what we teach in the classroom shifting, too?
6 years ago
Listen 7:46After mastectomy, some women visit tattoo artists
The “illusion of protrusion” makes for a realistic nipple tattoo.
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Listen 5:12Many African Americans seek out predominantly black churches. An African Methodist Episcopal reverend says separate black spaces can be good for mental health.
7 years ago
Listen 03:08Gay and searching for family: from Indonesia to foster care
There are lots of LGBTQ kids in the foster care system. To take care of those kids, Philadelphia is recruiting foster parents who are LGBTQ, too.
7 years ago
Listen 6:35Rehearsing transgender healthcare
7 years ago
ListenThe health care shortage that impacts victims of sexual assault
7 years ago
Listen 8:47Sleep paralysis: How a deep-sleep glitch can conjure the boogeyman
7 years ago
Listen 7:00This research subject calls himself a ‘professional guinea pig’
7 years ago
ListenHow one mom got through losing her first pregnancy
7 years ago
ListenBoth a mom and a med student: one woman’s midlife career change
8 years ago
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