Meet the Team
Queer, gender diverse providers helping queer, gender diverse patients!
At QueerDoc, we are fat, disabled, black, brown, poly, and more. We all share intersectional identities with our transness and queerness. We understand the importance of intersectionality. Our team participates in regular, recurring anti-bias training. Our staff works to understand their own implicit bias and receive additional training in culture humility from trainers with lived experience. Our anti-bias training to-date has included anti-racism training, indigiqueer training, and anti-sizeism training. We are committed to dismanteling white supremacy and the patriarchy in medicine.
Dr. Crystal Beal
they/themme | Owner | QueerDoc | Clinical Instructor, University of Washington, School of Medicine | Board Certified Family Medicine | Medical Licenses: AK, CA, MT, OR, WA, WY | Telehealth License: FL
Dr. Crystal Beal, a Board Certified Family Medicine Physician, started QueerDoc. They provide high-quality, expert and individualized queer and gender affirming medical care through QueerDoc. They have lived experience as a nonbinary femme and are SUPER queer themself, enjoying queer burlesque, vintage fashion, and their queer, kinky, poly family!
Dr. Beal attended Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee, Florida. While there, they helped found the LGBTQ medical student group. After medical school, they completed their training at Valley Family Medicine Residency Program in Washington state. Continuing to see gaps in care for the LGBTQ+ community, Dr. Beal sought extensive additional training in sexual health, queer health, and gender affirming care.
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Dr. Steph Upton
they/them | Genderqueer | QueerDoc Provider | Board Certified Family Medicine | Board Certified Addiction Medicine | Medical Licenses: CA, HI, ID, FL, WA
Dr. Steph Upton, a genderqueer Board Certified Family Medicine Physician, works with QueerDoc to provide expert, high-quality, individualized queer and gender affirming care to queer, trans, and gender diverse people. Dr. Upton is gender diverse themself, so they personally and professionally understand the challenges in getting gender affirming care.
Dr. Upton went to medical school at the University of Oklahoma and completed their residency at Providence St. Peter Family Medicine Residency Program in Olympia, WA in 2008. They currently reside in Seattle with their partners and dog, Otis. They enjoy spending time with their queer family, working out, and learning new things.
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Dr. Lin-Fan Wang
she/her | Queer Cisgender Femme | QueerDoc Provider | Board Certified Family Medicine | Medical Licenses: CA, FL, UT, HI, MT, WA, WY
Dr. Wang attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York and received her Masters in Public Health at Columbia University in New York City. She completed her residency in Family and Social Medicine (2011) and a family planning fellowship (2013) at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She connected with Dr. Beal through their shared work in expanding gender affirming care using virtual visits and medical education.
Dr. Wang uses her perspectives as a queer person, an immigrant and child of immigrants from Taiwan, and as a woman of color to provide individualized, liberatory, culturally humble, and trauma-informed care. In addition to queer health, her professional interests include racial and reproductive justice and adolescent health. Dr. Wang and her partner are owned by two cats, Sid and Impurrrator Furryosa, and she has an extensive unpublished photo collection of selfies with Sid and Furryosa in boxes of various sizes and shapes.
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Courtney Lee Rawls, MSN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC
they/them | Non-Binary Femme | QueerDoc Provider | Advance Practice Registered Nurse | Family Nurse Practitioner | Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner | Medical Licenses: AK, CA, ID, OR, UT, WA, WY
Courtney is a Nurse Practitioner with Board Certifications in Family Practice, Psychiatry Women’s/Gender-Related Care. As a Black, Femme, Neurodiverse, Non-Binary, and Queer person Courtney understands the challenges people with marginalized identities face when accessing care within the medical system. They are deeply passionate about working with Queer people who identify as BIPOC, disabled, gender-expansive, neuro and sexually diverse.
Courtney understands the harms that white heteronormative patriarchal culture inflicts upon our society and they provide medical care from a anti-racist, social justice, and trauma-informed perspective. Courtney identifies as a “complex” person, meaning that they know how to hold space as a “professional” and also consider themselves “real extra” too. They love the dynamic of both/and rather than either/or (“Ain’t nobody got time for binary thinking!”).
Courtney currently resides in North Carolina. They enjoy cooking, eating in bed, joyful movement, hiking, reading, and getting into trouble.
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Nora Gause
they/them | autigender/demi-mom | QueerDoc Admin All-Star | Care Navigator | Youth Support | Health Writer
Nora has loved the intricacies and possibilities of words and bodies since their earliest memories, and is thrilled to be at QueerDoc, where they are constantly learning. Nora supports the QueerDoc ecosystem by writing and managing the blog, welcoming new patients in their free 15-minute introductory appointments and helping patients understand their insurance coverage in care navigation appointments, and by providing several administrative supports to the clinicians.
Nora is queer, nonbinary, neurodiverse, and disabled. They have experience in medical administration, professional cooking for restricted diets, and is also a bookkeeper at a small accounting firm. Nora can often be found watching backyard birdies with Usul the cat, and has been known to carry treats for corvids in their pockets. Their poetry has been published in the SEAF 2020 Erotic Literature Anthology, Coffin Bell Journal, and Déraciné Magazine. Nora is a parent to a nonbinary young adult, and is active in online parents of trans teen/young adult groups.
Kai Mai
he/him or they/them | Trans | QueerDoc Admin Team| Prior Authorizations and Patient Assistance Support | Social Media | Youth Care Coordination
Kai is currently finishing his last year of undergrad at the University of Washington studying Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. He plans to attend medical school in the future with a desire to go into pediatric surgery, but has also recently been pulled towards gender care which is how he found himself with QueerDoc. As a trans and queer person himself, Kai has experienced the struggles of accessing gender affirming care as well as all the other challenges that come with being gender diverse. Through his work with QueerDoc, he hopes to be able to give back to his community by supporting both the patients and clinicians as well as continue to always learn more.
Outside of his work, Kai has a passion for the outdoors and especially all things rock climbing. He has also recently begun to explore his newfound love of traveling. When out and about you will without a doubt find Kai gushing over every dog he sees.
Kai shared a picture of his dog because pictures of himself aren’t his jam!
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What we do
Following an informed consent model, QueerDoc provides trans and gender affirming healthcare including hormone therapy, anti-androgens, puberty blockers, surgery referrals, and documents for gender marker change TOTALLY ONLINE!
If you live in Alaska, California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, or Wyoming request a free introductory appointment now to learn more. Request an appointment NOW!
Why we do it
At QueerDoc, we ARE queer, gender diverse, trauma-informed, body-positive, sex-positive, and kink-positive. We PASSIONATELY want to increase access to expert, affirming, and culturally competent care for queer, transgender, and gender diverse adolescents and adults.
