Rose Lovell, MD, is a family medicine physician recently graduated from Natividad Family Medicine Residency in Salinas, California. Her experience with transgender medicine started as a premedical student volunteering at a local transgender clinic in 2012, continued through medical school where she did research into the use of sexual orientation and gender identity collection methods, and into residency where she received awards for starting a transgender health program at her residency clinic. She is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and previously blogged at Open Minded Health, a blog on gender and sexual minority health.