FORGE / MKE LGBT CC

Froedtert’s LGBTQ Inclusion Clinic Comes to FORGE You’ve been asking for it, and now it’s here! The Inclusion Health Clinic – an LGBTQ-specific health center through Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin – is now open. Three providers from the Inclusion Health Clinic will be the speakers at the FORGE monthly meeting on October 20, 2018, sharing the unique opportunities the Inclusion Health Clinic offers the LGBTQ community by providing LGBTQ-affirming and -knowledgeable health care. In addition to providing comprehensive primary and preventive care for the LGBTQ community, the Inclusion Health Clinic offers OB/GYN care, HIV services and prevention, psychiatric care, and transgender-specific services, including hormone therapy. Attend and learn more about the Clinic, as well as have ample opportunity to ask questions. Our guests will be: Andrew Petroll, MS, MD – Medical Director of the Inclusion Health Clinic. Dr. Petroll is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease specialist offering HIV care, HIV Pre-exposure […]

This talk will focus on how the body is viewed through the lens of Chinese medicine. Kellen will explain the concepts of yin, yang, qi and blood, and will describe how those aspects of the body change during different parts of the transition process. Acupuncture and herbal medicine help the body adjust more smoothly to hormones and surgeries, and learning the basics of the foundational theories behind Chinese medicine can increase self-awareness and self-care. Bio: Kellen is a non-binary trans acupuncturist at North Node Clinic - a holistic health clinic they co-own with Ellice Plant. In addition to acupuncture and herbal medicine, they use techniques including moxibustion, cupping, and gua sha. They are passionate about LGBTQI competent health care and are committed to maintaining a practice that is affordable and accessible with a mission of creating anti-racist and anti-classist space.

...A Conversation with Linda Wesp, FNP-C, APNP, AAHIVS   Please join us for a conversation with Linda Wesp, family nurse practitioner from the Greater Milwaukee Center for Health and Wellness, Inc (gmchealth.org) on Sat. July 21st from 2-4PM at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 North Market Street, Second Floor, Milwaukee, WI 53202). Linda will share some general info about health and wellness and the latest research about gender affirming hormones, as well as talk about various national and international protocols and guidelines that currently inform trans health care. Linda Wesp FNP-C, APNP is a family nurse practitioner who has worked in community-based health care settings with LGBTQ populations for over 15 years, with a focus on trans health. She currently works at the Greater Milwaukee Center for Health and Wellness, where she provides gender affirming hormones, HIV management, PrEP, and general primary care. Prior to returning to Milwaukee in 2015, she worked at Howard […]

Book discussion: Sarah McBride’s Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality Can you be in your early 20s, transgender, in love, in grief, and still change the world? Sarah McBride’s answer is an emphatic YES! Read this inspirational memoir and then come join us to talk about whether and how it is inspiring you. We’ll even have a special surprise guest!  (Ok, it’ll be a special short video Sarah is making just for us.)   Sarah McBride recorded a special reading and personal narrative prior to the in-person meeting on June 16, 2018.