QueerCME Vodcast

About QueerCME Vodcast

Join gender diverse physician Dr. Crystal Beal (they/themme), founder of QueerDoc, as they bring you the QueerCME pod—a podcast for healthcare providers committed to excellence in transgender medicine. Each episode features expert guests and practical clinical insights. Earn 0.5 CE/CME credit per episode via the Pinnacle Learning app—free (https://learnatpinnacle.com/education). Listen monthly to raise your confidence, skills, and standards in gender affirming care. We have had over 7000 listeners!!! Our top five episodes are a great place to start: What Referring Clinicians Need to Know About Vocal Transition | S03E05 Dosing Deep Dive, Part 1 Somatic Sex Education and Surrogate Partner Therapy | S01E10 More Spoons Nutrition | S04E02 Dosing Deep Dive, part 2 | S02E02.2

Publisher

Dr. Crystal Beal (they/themme)

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

28 Jul 2022

Latest episode

4 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

34 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Jul 2026

   Embodied Experience with king yaa | S05E01

   Join me with king yaa. king yaa is a liberatory coach and trauma care practitioner working at the intersections of reproductive justice, disability justice, and gender liberation. With over 15 years of experience, they support queer, trans, and nonbinary communities — especially Black and racialized transmasculine and queer masculine-identified people — through decolonized, trauma-informed, and body-centered approaches to care. Their work helps providers, educators, and care practitioners expand their frameworks of gender, sexuality, and access beyond inclusion toward affirmation and liberation. Through offerings such as Birthing Beyond the Binary and Queer & Trans Reproductive Loss Support Training, king yaa equips healthcare professionals to unlearn white body supremacy, dismantle bias, and build practices that honor the full spectrum of queer and trans embodiment. Their mission is to transform how care is given and received — so that all bodies experience dignity, belonging, and the freedom to exist without fear or compromise.

2. 

   24 Feb 2026

   Prescribing Hope: Transgender Medicine with Dr. Luke Allen | S04E04

   🔊 Episode Description In this episode, we sit down with licensed psychologist Dr. Luke R. Allen to explore groundbreaking research showing that access to gender affirming medical care — including hormone therapy — is associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidal ideation among transgender and gender diverse adolescents and young adults. Dr. Allen walks us through his study’s findings (https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(25)00424-X/abstract), discusses the implications for clinical practice, and shares insight on what this evidence means for providers who want to deliver affirming, life-saving care. 🧠 About Dr. Luke R. Allen, PhD Dr. Luke R. Allen (he/him) is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience in research, clinical practice, and advocacy related to transgender and gender diverse health. He provides telehealth services across multiple states and specializes in supporting transgender and nonbinary youth, young adults, and their families with mental health, gender identity, and life affirming care. He is a Certified World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care Version 8 Member and Mentor and brings decades of training, scholarship, and clinical experience to both therapeutic work and scientific inquiry. (Luke R. Allen, PhD (https://lukeallenphd.com/about-me)) Dr. Allen’s approach emphasizes autonomy, dignity, and collaborative care — helping clients pursue meaningful lives on their own terms. His work bridges evidence, ethics, and community needs, with scholarly contributions that help shape our understanding of best practices in gender-affirming treatment. (Luke R. Allen, PhD (https://lukeallenphd.com/about-me)) Read more about Dr. Allen: https://lukeallenphd.com/about-me (https://lukeallenphd.com/about-me) (Luke R. Allen, PhD (https://lukeallenphd.com/about-me?utm_source=chatgpt.com)) 📚 Study Summary: Changes in Suicidality Among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study Published in The Journal of Pediatrics, this study tracked 432 transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults who began hormone therapy and completed standardized suicide screening measures both before and after treatment. Over an average of nearly two years of follow-up, the researchers observed significant declines in suicidal ideation and related behavior following initiation of hormone therapy — a finding consistent across age groups and assigned sex at birth. These results extend earlier smaller studies and provide robust clinical evidence that timely access to gender affirming care can play a protective role in mental health outcomes for trans youth. (ScienceDirect (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002234762500424X?utm_source=chatgpt.com)) 📄 Read the study here: https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(25)00424-X/abstract (https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(25)00424-X/abstract) (jpeds.com (https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2825%2900424-X/abstract?utm_source=chatgpt.com))

3. 

   11 Feb 2026

   Listening Across Oceans – Youth Access in New Zealand with Dr. Bex Canner | S04E03

   In this episode, Dr. Bex Canner, a retired family medicine physician with years of experience practicing in Aotearoa (New Zealand), joins us to unpack the shifting legal and cultural landscape of puberty blockers for trans youth. Dr. Canner reflects on how New Zealand once seemed poised to expand gender affirming care—but now faces growing misinformation, fear-based rhetoric, and policy uncertainty. Together, we name the harm of anti-trans narratives like “mutilation” and ground listeners in what puberty blockers actually are: safe, evidence-based care that gives trans and gender diverse youth time to explore who they are. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really happening with trans healthcare in New Zealand, this episode offers nuance, clarity, and global solidarity. Here's the link for the Counting Ourselves (https://countingourselves.nz/)survey mentioned.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,374

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

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Quality

57

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

60

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