Escuela de Verano Trans: Histerectomía
Si tienes un útero pero quisieras no tener uno, terminarás dedicando algo de tiempo personal a un cirujanx ginecológico. Si bien esto es obvio, vale la pena mencionarlo de forma directa: si te haces...
View ArticleEscuela de Verano Trans: Orquiectomía
En este procedimiento, el cirujano remueve los testículos con o sin escroto. Este procedimiento detiene la producción de testosterona, lo que permite a lxs pacientes ajustar sus dosis de...
View ArticleEscuela de Verano Trans: Vaginoplastia (también “cirugía inferior”)
En la vaginoplastia, que puede requerir múltiples cirugías, dependiendo de las preferencias del/la cirujanx y tu caso, tu tejido genital existente es reciclado creativamente en una vagina, un par de...
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Escuela de Verano Trans: Cuando Cosas van Mal
Nos gustaría decir que explorar tu género, salir del clóset, transicionar (si eso es lo que quieres), es como navegar por aguas tranquilas. Desafortunadamente, tenemos que ser realistas: ser trans no...
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Libre como un pájaro verde: El proceso de legalización del aborto en Argentina
Author: Gabriel LeãoEn una entrevista exclusiva con Scarleteen, Mariela Belski, Directora Ejecutiva de la Amnistía Internacional Argentina, habló de la trayectoria a la reciente legalización del aborto...
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Seeing You With A Perpetrator Hurts. Here's Why.
Author: Grace CatanGrace is a survivor who has something to ask of you: she's asking you not to spend time with people who have abused me or any other survivor you know. And she's also telling you...
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A Collective Cause: Brazilian and Portuguese-language Sex Ed Resource Caos.a
Author: Gabriel LeãoCaos.a (a play with the word “Causa”, Portuguese for “Cause”) began during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, and was created by television host Barbara Thomaz, with...
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Your PMDD Primer: A Necessary Guide to an Under Researched Disorder
Author: Sara TraynorOther people had to have been struggling with this, right? There was no way I was the only one. But if that was true, then why didn’t I – or anyone else I knew, for that matter –...
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Youth Sexpert: An Interview with Tara Michaela
Author: Sam WallWe’re big fans of young people taking sex ed into their own hands. So, it’s no surprise we were thrilled to interview Tara Michaela, who founded the Youth Sexpert Program (YSP) when she...
View ArticleThe State of Texas for Trans Youth and Families (And How You Can Cope or Help)
I’ve written a piece like this three times now.Every time I wrote one, I hoped with everything in me it would be the last time. That the people attacking trans youth and their families for political...
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Scarleteen, Doing 'Queer Sex Ed For All' since 1998
In 2019, a handful of sex education organizations decided to rebrand what had previously been a month focused on teen pregnancy prevention, crowning May, instead, Sex Ed For All Month, something other...
View ArticleAsk not what your body can do for you, but what you can do for your body!
Hello!When it comes to our bodies and feeling good in them -- be it with sex, with food, with movement, or anything else -- it's usually better to listen and respond to what our bodies are telling us...
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Quintimacy: An Interview with Beck Thom
Author: Gabriel LeãoBritain’s Quintimacy is a space that intends to cultivate queer intimacy through trauma-informed and embodied connection. In an interview with Scarleteen, founder Beck Thom talks...
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Transmasculine Flow: Let's Talk Periods
Author: Ellis SchwammFor all the body positivity of our modern era, we still don’t hear many public conversations about periods. In many parts of the world, people are and have long been cut off from...
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We're a Co-Directorship Now!
It’s been almost 25 years since I first founded Scarleteen. For all of that time, I have been our lone director. That wasn’t really something I wanted or intended so much as a thing I just had to...
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How to Find Queer Media
Author: Sam WallA guide to finding queer media, even when it feels hard. When we talk with young people, particularly young queer and trans people, we often recommend they seek out other queer media...
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Debunking Dilators: The What, Why, and Which of Dilation (Part One)
Author: Caitlyn Tivy, PT, DPT, OCSPerhaps you’ve heard of dilators — also known as vaginal trainers — before, but you weren’t sure where to learn more about them. Maybe you’ve never heard of them, but...
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Debunking Dilators: The When, Where, and How of Dilation (Part Two)
Author: Caitlyn Tivy, PT, DPT, OCSPart two of a series on vaginal trainers from Caitlyn Tivy, a pelvic health physical therapist and health writer. This part of the series explains more about the...
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She Cheers for Awkward! An interview with Bevin of Fat Kid Dance Party
Author: Sam Wall and Bevin All bodies are worthy of love exactly as they are! We only ever get to have one body in this life and having a peaceful relationship with it is quality of life. If humans...
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Let Her Be Frank: An Interview with Tracy Dawson
Author: Gabriel LeãoWomen who had to, or chose to, dress as men to access masculine environments to follow their calling are often overlooked in history. Enter the book Let Me Be Frank: A Book About...
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