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Elevated Access
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Free air transportation from volunteer pilots for people needing abortion or gender-affirming care

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🎉: Make sure trans kids and their families know that we exist to help them access care.

🛩️: If you're a pilot, sign up to volunteer with us.

💵: If you're able, donate to support our work to make sure no one is left behind.

Links in our bio!
Our Response: Working with dozens of providers, support groups, and community organizations around the country, we’ll continue flights at no cost to help families begin or continue gender-affirming care. Everyone has the right to control their own bodies and futures as well as to raise healthy children. How You Can Help: If you have a trans kid in your life, make sure they and their parents know we exist to make sure they can still get to care. If you’re a pilot, sign up to help. And if you can, donate to make sure no one is left behind.
July 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Medical misogyny played a role in the AIDS crisis
Medical Misogyny The CDC’s medical definition of HIV/AIDS skewed heavily toward men, which neglected to recognize opportunistic infections that commonly affected female bodies with AIDS, such as Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and cervical cancer. Medical Misogyny Women were excluded from receiving medication in clinical trials, and denied needed healthcare from the Division of AIDS Services. Due to this medical misogyny, about 65% of HIV-positive women died without being diagnosed with AIDS. Honor the “L,” and remember its significance As we close out Pride Month 2025, keep in mind the example of the MANY Queer women who stepped up during the AIDS Crisis, not just as caretakers, but also as activists, lawyers, artists, and historians. And call out medical misogyny when you see it!
June 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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On the left side of the page there's a text box that reads: "Raj coined the term "voluntary gender worker" to describe the unofficial (and often unrecognized) labor that transgender advocates do in the 1987 essay titled "Burnout: Unsung Heroes And Heroines In The Transgender World", originally published in The Transsexual Voice. Throughout his career, Raj took long breaks as a result of this burnout. Including in 2017 (Almost thirty years later), announcing that he was taking indefinite medical leave as a result of burnout." On the upper right there's a younger photo of Rupert in a leather jacket. Below that is a text box that reads: "His work as a broker of information between medical / mental health professional and the trans community has improved the standard of care for trans people as well as allowed us to take a more active role in our medical care, through the democratization of that information" A photo of Lou Sullivan in a white tank top. There's also a card from Rupert to Lou. The left side of card: "Sept. 20 / 86 Lou - Thanks a lot for all your letters + submissions (reviews, cartoons) for publication in the magazine. I'll be getting out a double-edition (32 pages) by mid-October, hopefully. Also, will be sending out two of Joanna Clark's articles and The Confidential Contacts Directory before that I hope as a bonus for members + subscribers having to wait so long (four months) without any word/magazine issue. Would you be interested, Low, in submitting a report of your genital reconstruction for a future issue? Please advise. I'm sure our readers would be very interested in such a report. Dr. Harry Benjamin died at age 101 on August 27th-survived by his wife Greta - when he married in 1925. How's your biography of Jack Garland coming along? MMRF has sold four of the six copies of your book I ordered from you so far. Take care. - R.R." Then on the right side, there is printed text that says "... or you may miss them! CONGRATULATIONS!" Followed by more handwritten text: "On your recent genitoplasty... I'm very pleased for you. Sorry, this card is so late, but I've been ill with bronchial pneumonia for over three weeks now but am finally recovering. I'll be moving to another apartment on Oct. 1st and looking for another job. I've a backlog of MMRF work (correspondence, magazine, directory, etc.) to do-will set at it really soon - Rupert" There's a text box at the bottom of the page that reads: "Raj was also close friends with Lou Sullivan, another important advocate for trans people, and specifically for the rights of gay trans men like himself in an era where heterosexuality was a part of the diagnostic criteria for gender identity disorder. I would encourage any trans people feeling disillusioned to check out the Digital Transgender Archive, and specifically correspondence between trans people actively navigating their access to care."
June 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Mike Bonanza runs Elevated Access. Bonanza's group recruits pilots who fly people to places they can access abortion & gender-affirming care (pilots are volunteers; flights are no charge). Unlike commercial flights, passengers don't need drivers licenses. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Abortion Diaries: The pilot
"The vast majority who fly with us have never been on an airplane before."
www.motherjones.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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We imagine a future of reproductive justice, where people are empowered to control their own bodies, to make true choices to have children or not have children, and to raise children in safe and healthy environments.
The Hope: Working with dozens of partners, we’re doing our part to help people overcome these barriers to abortion care. Thanks to you, our volunteer pilots and our donors, we’ve helped thousands of people travel receive care on their terms. Join us! Whether you’ve donated before or haven’t at all, today is the best time to donate. If you’re a pilot, get signed up as a volunteer. Remember this: Try.
June 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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What are examples of medical GAC interventions? Hormone therapy. Facial masculinization or feminization surgery. Top surgery. Bottom surgery. Hair removal. Voice changing surgery. Why does gender-affirming care matter? Anyone who chooses a form of GAC has done so to look or feel like their true gender. For youth, GAC decreases risks of suicide by 73%. The regret rate including for surgeries is 1%. Knee surgeries are over 6%. Getting a tattoo is 16%. Having children is 7%. Important Note! Every person's transition looks different, and no one needs to do ANY of these things to call themselves transgender or nonbinary. Respect people for who they are and their self-determination.
June 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM