Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Heteronormative" has become somewhat of a buzzword for queer people, and for good reason. It's a way to call out a culture that ...

Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community have long experienced prejudice in medical settings. This can range from microaggressions, such as comments that a patient ...

I sort of joke that I wrote myself into graduate school because halfway through working on my book, Raising LGBTQ Allies, I applied to grad school to become an LGBTQ-affirming therapist. At graduate ...

It’s about time we kicked heteronormativity to the curb. Never heard of the term before? It has to do with what kinds of identities and experiences — namely, cisgender and heterosexual ones — are ...

It’s easy to hear a word like “heteronormativity” and roll your eyes. It just sounds too complicated, too academic. To paraphrase The Simpsons, words like heteronormativity sound like “buzzwords that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Expectations of prejudice and discrimination can lead LGBTQ+ patients to avoid seeking health care. Nadzeya Haroshka/iStock via ...

Heteronormativity refers to a cultural bias that presumes heterosexuality is the natural and normal default state of all people. Under this worldview, cisgender male and female bodies are treated as ...