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  Voice Training Is a Medical Necessity for Many Transgender People   Published January 9, 2023 in Neurology Blogs, By Z Paige L’Erario, MD I am very proud of mine and my colleagues’ work published in September in Scientific American: Mind Matters.1 This represents a career accomplishment for any medical professional, transgender or otherwise. Bridges to other disciplines […]

  Affirming Evidence-Based Care for Young Patients Who Are Transgender or Gender Diverse   SPECIAL REPORT: PSYCHOEDUCATION The data is clear: We should expect an increasing number of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth presenting to our practices over the coming years.1 We must ask ourselves: Are we prepared to treat these patients and their families with the […]

  Ethical Questions in the Field- Is Refusal of Service to a LGBTQIA2S+ Client Acceptable in Social Work Practice? November 12, 2022 By Z Paige L’Erario, MD, NYS CRPA/CPS-provisional and Holly Fancher, LMSW, MSEd Originally Posted in Social Work Today; Vol. 22, No.4, P.22    “This case study examines a field intern’s right to refuse […]

My Experience as a Transgender Physician with Mental Illness     By Z Paige Lerario, MD, NYS CRPA/CPS-p   Originally posted July 20th, 2022 in NAMI Blogs   Alabama, Arizona and Texas have recently passed legislative efforts to ban gender-affirming health care to transgender adolescents. This is highly concerning and relevant, as 2% of younger Americans identify as transgender, a term […]

  “Now is the time we need pride the most. We cannot succumb to fear or shame, and we cannot stand down to threats of violent oppression. We are under attack by a conservative legislative agenda that ignores our medical evidence and peer-reviewed literature. We must fight for our patients to receive the medically necessary […]

My Authentic Voice: Expanding the Sound Between Man and Woman By: Z Paige Lerario, MD, NYS CRPA/CPS-p May 2, 2022 Blog originally posted in: Neurology Blogs, Voices: Lived Experience Based on the original research article published in: The Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research In collaboration with the team at New York University’s: Acoustic […]

“Children remember what they are taught; What they should do, And what they should not. Whom they should love, And whom they should hate. What is one’s choice, And what is one’s fate.” Wei Dewdney (they/it) Greenburgh Pride 2021 | Edgemont GSA     Refuel Our Amazing LGBTQIA2S+ Youth Energy! Donate to Greenburgh Pride 2022 […]

The Nonbinary Physician Activist: “Do No Harm” Implies Equity as the Outcome.   Gender nonconformity and outspoken nonbinary voices are stigmatized in medical professionalism.  Anti-LGBTQ climates in healthcare and research settings are psychological iatrogenesis which require structural changes to avoid further malpractice.  Academic medicine should take largescale and immediate action based on lessons learned from […]