![]() LGBTQ+ patients face health disparities compared with the general population. And so, as a result of that, we've built this incredibly engaged and passionate community," she said. "I don't think a lot of One Medical patients want to connect with other One Medical patients, but Folx members are really excited to connect with other Folx members. ![]() Though many patients could eventually receive both individual and group-based care, Guzmán said the community aspect is particularly salient for Folx's patient base. They'll launch this month in areas like fertility, family planning and parental support, with more types of groups to be added next year. ![]() Guzmán said the goal is to offer a full suite of mental and behavioral healthcare, but the startup will begin with expert-led support groups. The investment will also go toward scaling Folx's new employer offering, building customer support teams and working toward accepting insurance coverage. "We've been able to do small tests in each of those across the last few months, and are really excited to be able to leverage this investment to double down." "In the last few months, we started to - in conversation with the community - launch things like our virtual healthcare platform, where we're able to provide general telehealth services, parental and fertility consults, expert-led support groups, peer support groups, content and community," Folx CEO Liana Douillet Guzmán told MobiHealthNews. The company later added sexual health offerings as well a virtual care platform geared toward general health and primary care. Launched in late 2020, Folx Health started with providing hormone replacement therapy for transgender patients. As part of the financing, 7wireVentures Managing Partner Lee Shapiro, formerly chief financial officer of Livongo, will join Folx's board of directors. Others participating in the round include Foresite Capital and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Define Ventures and Polaris Partners. Folx Health, which offers virtual healthcare services for the LGBTQ+ community, raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by 7wireVentures. That it's tonally in line with a punk theme? Yes.That it matches other neutral forms, like Latinx? Probably.That it just looks better? I don't know.Individual named Ranmoth provided a definition of "folx" on Urban 2 Theįirst documented definition of "folx" appeared in 2006, when an ![]() 1 According to McFredies, theįirst published use of "folx" appeared in 2001 in a blog post writtenīy BiNet Los Angeles board member and owner of Clare inĭescribing her identity as well as other queer identities. To focus their lexicon to their identities.Įtymology is s/w lacking: (same citation)Īccording to Word Spy lexicographer Paul McFedries, the term "folx" wikipedia, urban dictionary, Boston Globe article Unlike the term "folks", the ending "-x" on "folx" specifically includes LGBTQ people and those who do not identify within the gender binary. For this reason, I suspect that tracing earlier uses of gender-neutral "x" is the best we can do regarding an etymology of "folx."įolx is a gender neutral collective noun used to address a group of people. It's possible that "folx" evolved independently of these other words that use "x" to denote gender-neutrality, but it would also be a significant coincidence. This leads me to believe that "X" as a gender-neutral particle originated with "Mx.," functioning as a wildcard character of sorts, and was used similarly by the communities that coined "Latinx" and "folx." “That would solve the gender problem entirely.” “On second thought, maybe both sexes should be called Mx.,” the article said. era, an article in it wondered whether a courtesy title that masks gender might help ameliorate any bias against single parents. Martin’s team dates to 1977, in a publication called The Single Parent. Katherine Rosman in The New York Times describes the earliest found citation of the honorific: The referenced sense 3 refers to "X" as it is commonly used in algebra to refer to an unknown entity, and allusive extensions. The OED has this to say about the etymology of "Mx."Īpparently < M- (in Mr n., Mrs n.1, Ms n.2, etc.) + X n., probably denoting an unknown or variable quantity (compare sense 3 at that entry) It seems notable that an earlier cited use of an "X" to denote gender neutrality is in the honorific Mx., which dates in writing to the 1970s.Īccording to this article in The Huffington Post, Latinx appears to have grown into use in the 2000's, and it appears from articles covering folx that it was also cited in writing as recently as the 21st century.
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