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Brown University’s new student health plan coverage will cover 14 types of sexual reassignment surgeries for transgender students.

From avoiding the issue a few years ago, the vast majority of U.S. healthcare providers are actively committed to seeing LGBT patients treated with courtesy, respect & dignity, as well as specific training, according to a Human Rights Campaign study.

Some doctors are advocating for a partial reversal of a blanket ban on organ transplants using tissue from HIV+, saying it only makes sense for HIV+ donors to provide tissue for HIV+ patients in need.

With Sotheby’s auctioneer, Hugh Hildesley, at the podium, inciting the altruistic crowd into a bidding frenzy for items such as a date with Bravo star, Andy Cohen, or art from Robert Mapplethorpe, William Wegman, and Herb Ritts,nearly $400,000 was raised.

The U.S. government has announced that a new health care database will only specify the genders of individuals, and not contain information about sexual orientation.

In the UK, a lesbian family has won the right for same-gender couples to receive medical intervention for conception as part of their health care.