Dr. Jenna Beckham: We did things like making sure that all of our bathrooms, even in an OBGYN office where they may not typically be, were all-gender bathrooms. Similarly, in the signs over all of the wastebaskets beside the toilets, you know the ones that say “don’t throw your,” a lot of times they’ll say, “feminine products.” So we changed the word so that it said “menstrual products.” Really just subtle things to someone who probably is cisgender and isn’t aware of those things, but can really be a very safe and welcoming environment for individuals, particularly in North Carolina with our history of how we relate to bathrooms and gender. I have patients who drive for several hours from other parts of North Carolina and even some that travel from other states, because I feel confident that the bathrooms and the community, OBGYN practice— I mean, probably the one where I trained as a medical student— are not gender inclusive. I think if a male tried to call and make an appointment with an OBGYN… I don’t like to make assumptions, but I’m almost certain that the office in a lot of these smaller communities in the more conservative parts of North Carolina would probably not only not know what to do about that or how to receive it but perhaps— and I know this happens because I hear from my patients who had experiences in other clinics— be really not treated very well and discriminated against. I mean, I think it happens in all areas of health care. I think it’s a particular challenge in OBGYN because as we’ve talked about, compared to most other specialties, it’s the one that’s sort of historically and for a very long time thought to be limited only to women and people who identify as female.