Interview with Dr. Rhys Preston

An interview with Dr. Rhys Preston, a white trans man, chiropractor, and trans health activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, he was practicing at his chiropractic clinic in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. In addition to his chiropratic work, Preston has taught on topics of anatomy, nutrition, trans health, and holistic health at Normandale Community College, the Aveda Institute, and Avenues for Homeless Youth, and has been involved for two decades in trans health activism in the Twin Cities, including with the Trans Health Conference, the Shot Clinic, and various queer and trans recovery groups. In this oral history interview with Myra Billund-Phibbs, Preston discusses his Catholic upbringing in New Jersey, time in the lesbian community, and his experiences of transition, his experience working with the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition and the Trans Health Conferences in Minneapolis in the mid-to-late 2000s, his experiences in recovery and founding of the first trans-centered recovery group in Minneapolis with Arin McNeese, and his thoughts on holistic health, nutrition, and the state of trans health care generally. Specifically, he discusses shortcomings in trans health care around a lack of endocrinological, nutritional/gastrointestinal, and immune system knowledge and trans competency, his thoughts on stealth and being out, and his latest work with an LGBTQ+ youth mentoring nonprofit called Queerspace Collective.

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Identifier: 5q47rp06k
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Preston, Rhys
Contributor(s): Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Brenner-Adam, Katherine
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Oct. 28, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
Queerspace Collective
Places: Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
New Jersey > Monmouth > Borough of Keansburg > Keansburg
Topic(s): Chiropractors
Health care for LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ activists
LGBTQ+ recovery groups
LGBTQ+ youth
Trans men
White transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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