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Birth control
How birth control can be part of gender-affirming care for transmasc and gender-nonbinary folks
For some people, it can help reduce dysphoria
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Birth control
5 reasons to use birth control when you’re LGBTQIA+
It’s not just for the cishets
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Birth control
6 tips for trans, nonbinary, and intersex people navigating sexual health and birth control
Because you are your own best advocate
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Birth control
Birth control across the gender spectrum
Transgender, cisgender, or gender nonconforming? Birth control can help you stay on top of your reproductive health.
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Birth control
Real Stories: LGBTQ folks talk birth control
People with a range of identities and orientations can benefit from birth control.
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Condom
Why use condoms?
"It's usually very assumed that we're gonna need condoms..."
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IUD
Lindsay, 30, IUD
I never even think about it being there.
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IUD
Mal, 30, IUD
Take care of your vaginal health as much as you can.
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Condom
Conner, 23, condoms
Your own sexual health is more important than this one night stand.
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Withdrawal (pull out) method
Taisha, 21, withdrawal and not right now
I wasn’t using a condom and [he’d] pull out.
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Condom
Devon, 19, condoms, withdrawal, and emergency contraception
I love adventuring with condoms.
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"Not right now"
Tee, 21, not right now
If we’re going to have sex, we need to have this conversation.
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