New Subscription Service Folx Tackles Queer and Trans Health—and Faces Some Community Skepticism FG Trade via iStock Even as more health centers nationwide become trained to provide LGBTQ-competent care and more insurers (public and private) cover transgender-related care such as hormones and surgeries, queer and trans folks—especially those in red states and rural areas—still often feel left out in the cold when it comes to medicine. Last year, a Center for American Progress survey found that 15% of LGBTQ Americans report postponing or avoiding medical treatment due to discrimination, including nearly three in 10 transgender individuals. A.G. Breitenstein, J.D., M.P.H., 52, wants to change all that. She’s the genderqueer-identifying founder and CEO of Folx Health, the subscription-based health care service for queer and trans folks that launched in December, soon raising $25 million in venture funding. After graduating from Yale and then the University of Connecticut law school, she started the legal program at the Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center in Boston, which serves LGBTQ youth. “I was working with kids on the streets with high rates of HIV,” she says.