Nico is obsessed with counting calories. But this compulsion to monitor food doesn’t line up with how they see themself. Why does Nico want parts of their body to disappear? Why isn’t eating disorder treatment working?
RESOURCES
- Bodies Facebook Group
- Queer the Table podcast, hosted by Nico Wisler
- Consumedxx podcast, hosted by Spivey Knapik
- Dr. Sand Chang
- Trans Eating Disorders Are All But Ignored by Medical Community, The Advocate
- Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Eating-Related Pathology in a National Sample of College Students (Elizabeth W. Diemer, 2015)
- Gender confirming medical interventions and eating disorder symptoms among transgender individuals (R.J. Testa, 2015)
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards for Care
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