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🍼 Did you know people are significantly more likely to regret elective plastic surgery, tattoos, and even having children than they are to regret having gender-affirming surgery?
✨ A new report, published in The American Journal of Surgery, reviewed 55 studies involving regret rates for common plastic surgery operations and major life events. Gender-affirming surgery, which encompasses mastectomies, breast augmentation, facial, vocal chord, and genital surgeries, has a rate of regret of less than 1 percent, making it "extremely low," according to the study.
⛪ Rodney Wilson, who founded LGBTQ+ History Month in 1994, argued this week in The Advocate that Jesus and Paul might very well have been asexual. Also, is everyone in heaven nonbinary? See what the history teacher has to say.
🚨 Anti-LGBTQ+ laws are having a catastrophic effect on queer youth in the United States. Between bans on gender-affirming care for minors and laws allowing for queer students to be misgendered, outed, or excluded, 90 percent of LGBTQ+ youth said their well-being has been negatively impacted by recent politics, according to The Trevor Project's 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People that was released this week. 🚨
Onward and upward,
Alex Cooper
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Look, a hint!
Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Tuesday, you'll get the question. Today, you'll get a hint. And Saturday, you'll get the answer.
This week’s question is: Who was the first out LGBTQ+ White House Press Secretary?
This week's hint is: She was one of The Advocate's LGBTQ+ people of the year in 2022.
Reply to this email with the answer and you may get a shout-out in a future newsletter!
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- Cher lays to rest why she doesn’t date men her age: ‘They’re all dead’ (Pride)
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