The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired Virgie Tovar, a self-described 'anti-weight-based discrimination' expert, to consult on 'weight stigma and weight neutrality.' Tovar, author of 'You Have the Right to Remain Fat' and advocate for 'fat positivity and body acceptance,' expressed her excitement on Instagram, calling the collaboration an 'absolute dream come true.' Details of Tovar's role within the department remain unclear.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a self-described 'anti-weight-based discrimination' expert to consult on 'weight stigma and weight neutrality.' Virgie Tovar, the author of 'You Have the Right to Remain Fat' and other published works on 'fat positivity and body acceptance' announced on her Instagram Monday that she was hired to consult for the department, calling the collaboration an 'absolute dream come true.
In a video posted by Project Heal, Tovar discussed how medical professionals pressured her to lose weight since she was a child and that she had falsely believed they were doing so with her health in mind. 'I really believed that this was about my heath. I really believed my doctor was right and so I was using the language of getting 'better' but I was actually deeply in the throes of anorexia,' she said.
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