Personal Digest: Queer medical trainees choose safer states

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Personal Digest: Queer medical trainees choose safer states
Digest Newsletter · Aug 4, 2026
Personal Digest: Queer medical trainees choose safer states

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56% more likely — Sexual and gender-minority medical students are now 56% more likely to choose training sites with legal protections.

Informed Consent

Informed Consent

Consent gets blurry: from dark patterns to facial scans

Dark pattern (localcircles.com) · Artificial Intelligence (weavenews.org) · Facial recognition (biometricupdate.com)

BDSM

BDSM

Kink goes mainstream — and productions take consent seriously

Television (giantfreakinrobot.com) · Film Director (dazeddigital.com)

Sexual Minority

Sexual Minority

Inclusion retreats as queer students pick safer states

Diversity (business) (ft.com) · Medical education (ajmc.com)

Fiction

Fiction

Literary loss: Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s lasting legacy

Faulkner Award (apnews.com)

Sexuality

Sexuality

Trooper charged: sexual-assault case spotlights abuse of power

Sexual Assault (cbsnews.com)

Writing

Writing

Writing retooled: craft for humans, proof for bots

Computer programmer shortage (cacm.acm.org) · Artificial Intelligence (fastcompany.com) · Benjamin Alire Sáenz (texasstandard.org)

gender diversity

gender diversity

Diversity programs lose traction as boardrooms tilt right

Corporate Governance (news.lee.net) · Wage gap (news-decoder.com)