Listen, navigating the world of dating apps is no easy feat. Especially considering just how many of them exist and how long it may take to sift through all the profiles. Receiving messages that are totally inappropriate because of your skin color. So much ugh.
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Black people and women with severe heart failure who might be good candidates for surgery to implant a heart-assisting device have a lower chance of actually getting that operation than white patients, or male patients, a new study finds. The differences for Black patients cropped up mainly in patients whose chances of benefiting from a left-ventricular assist device LVAD were less clear-cut, usually because they had less severe heart failure. That meant it was up to their health care team and the patient to decide if they wanted to have the operation or continue with non-surgical treatment. The patterns of LVAD use in women, meanwhile, suggests lower access no matter how severe their heart failure. Differences by race and gender persisted even after the researchers took into account a raft of factors, from patients' incomes and distance from the hospital to what their neighborhood population mix was like. That raises the strong possibility that for these patients, the chance of getting an LVAD was influenced by conscious or unconscious race and gender bias on the part of health care providers, the researchers conclude. And that means hospitals and heart failure teams need to take steps to ensure more equal access to LVAD care for all patients who might benefit, the authors say.
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A trans woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity , may experience gender dysphoria , and may transition ; this process commonly includes hormone replacement therapy and sometimes sex reassignment surgery , which can bring relief and resolve feelings of gender dysphoria. Trans women may be heterosexual , bisexual , homosexual , asexual , or identify with other terms such as queer.
Anti-racism involves exploring the unique ways that anti-blackness shows up in different forms in our everyday life. Now, the term has become more mainstream and is conceptualized as the experiences faced by those with intersecting identities. Misogynoir is rampant in ways that may not even be realized. The hashtag SayHerName was created in to highlight misogynoir and how stories of Black women and girls often go overlooked, unnoticed and untold.