LGBTQ+ / Queer Experience

Queer identity, gender, and sexuality are not abstract clinical topics or diagnoses to be analyzed from a distance; they are lived, embodied realities. Whether you are navigating trans medical care, untangling patriarchal gender expectations, processing sexual violence, or existing at the exact nexus where disability, race, and queer survival meet, therapy here is not a space where you have to justify your existence or perform compliance for a provider. I know the structural theory, I know the institutional advocacy, and I know the lived reality of showing up as yourself in a world built to categorise, police, and suppress you.

I have had green hair since 2022. I found my color and that's the one I am. What other label do I need? I'm just a man. I used to reject that. I don't anymore. I enjoy it. I embody it. I've always embodied it, going back to being a kid getting the "you can't play with the girls anymore" talk.

My work in sexual violence intervention and prevention started at what was then the Gender Equity Center - a space whose own name shifts trace the history of feminist waves, going back to its origins as The Women's Center. While there, I did crisis meetings, walked survivors to health services, and did direct advocacy alongside trans folks, people of color, and marginalized community members. 

At the exact same time, I was interning at the Equal Access Center working directly with disabilities. The grant driving the Gender Equity Center explicitly targeted the intersection of queer and disabled folks, and I was the person on staff holding down the disability side of that grant mandate while doing upper-level graduate coursework in feminist theory.

A huge part of that work was navigating trans medicine; specifically, gender-affirming surgeries, referral letters, and nonbinary surgical access. Medical systems put up absurd administrative gates around trans care, forcing people to jump through compliance hoops, perform binary narratives to satisfy gatekeepers, or fight for nonbinary procedures that surgeons refuse to understand. I provide concrete medical navigation, writing referral letters and cutting through administrative friction to help you secure the care and bodily sovereignty you actually want.

These are topics referenced within the above text:

• Sex & Sexuality (unlearning shame, exploring desire, and reclaiming bodily sovereignty)

• Identity, Culture & Community (examining systemic isolation, intersectional advocacy, and collective support)

• Case Management and System Navigation/Advocacy (providing concrete material backing across medical charting, referral letters, and surgical gatekeeping)

• Crisis Intervention & Navigation (offering trauma-informed advocacy, crisis intervention, and harm reduction without institutional surveillance)

• Accommodations & Inaccessible Systems (securing formal support, navigating healthcare friction, and fighting institutional barriers)

• Men's Experiences (unpacking societal pressure around emotional suppression, self-reliance, and masculine embodiment)

• Women's Experiences (navigating gendered expectations, caregiving strain, bodily autonomy, and cultural shame)