Folx is a new healthcare provider by and for the queer community

When a trans friend of A.G. Breitenstein, founder of the new queer/trans healthcare provider Folx, wanted to begin transitioning, they didn't know where to go. They felt their family doctor wouldn't understand, so they researched online and ended up at a clinic several towns away. That experience wasn't great, either: "The doctor kept asking me all kinds of questions about how long I had been living as a man and whether I had attempted suicide," the friend recalled in Breitenstein's Medium post on why she founded Folx. "I felt like I had to justify myself over and over again."  In the end, they ended up ordering hormones online from overseas. "It was basically illegal," Breitenstein's friend wrote, "but it was just easier than going to the doctor’s office."  Read more...More about Lgbtq, Healthcare, Culture, and Health