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Feb 25, 2025

VCU Health resumes gender-affirming care for existing patients, following U.Va. decision

VCU Health and the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU announced Tuesday that the system will resume gender-affirming medical treatments for people under 19 if they are existing patients, but the system will not offer gender-affirming surgeries or medically treat new young patients. VCU Health and UVA Health suspended all gender-affirming medical care for patients […]

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Feb 4, 2025

CHKD is latest Va. system to halt gender-affirming treatment for minors

Days after UVA Health and VCU Health suspended all gender-affirming medical treatments for people under age 19, Norfolk-based Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters has followed suit, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. In a statement, CHKD noted that it has never offered surgical treatments to patients. “With the utmost concern for our patients and our caring […]

In 2013, Kathryn Fessler with Henrico County-based Altria Group co-founded Mosaic, an employee resource group for LGBTQ+ workers. It now has about 500 members across the company. Photo by Shandell Taylor
May 30, 2023

Pride in their work

When Kathryn Fessler interviewed with Altria Group Inc. in 2008, she was disappointed to learn that the Henrico County-based Fortune 500 tobacco manufacturing company didn’t have an employee resource group for LGBTQ+ employees. As an out lesbian, Fessler considered such groups a high priority when evaluating new workplaces, but she wound up taking the job […]

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