Happy #LesbianVisibilityDay! Today, we want to celebrate by sharing the stories of lesbians, past and present, who have contributed great things to medicine. [THREAD]

As a doctor and trans woman, Dr. Madeline Deutsch is dedicated to ensuring that trans patients have access to understanding and compassionate primary care. She opened her first transgender care clinic in 2006 and has cared for more than 2000 transgender patients since then.

She founded the Transgender Health Program at the LA LGBT Center. She is also the founding Medical Director of UCSF Transgender Care, which provides gender affirming medical, surgical, and mental health care.

Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, after becoming the first director of the New York’s Bureau of Child Hygiene in 1908, drastically decreased the infant mortality rates in NYC by implementing sanitation efforts like hand washing. #WashYourHands

Baker said that she would retire
when every state in the union
had a child hygiene service. She was able to do that by 1923 at age 50, and she spent the rest of her days as an activist and consultant, living with her partner, the novelist Ida Wylie.

Dr. Martha May Elliot and Dr. Ethel Collins Dunham met as undergraduates in 1910. They remained together throughout medical school at John Hopkin’s University, residency, and the rest of their medical careers until their deaths.

Eliot was the first woman elected president of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Her research helped increase prevention and early diagnosis of rickets in children.

Dunham worked through the American Pediatric Society and the Children’s Bureau to establish standards for care of newborns and helped build a bridge between pediatricians and obstetricians.

Both Eliot and Dunham received the John Howland Medal, the highest honor given by the American Pediatric Society.

That's the end of our thread. Thank you for celebrating these ladies with us! Who are you looking up to on this Lesbian Visibility Day?