Dr. Maya Green, known as Dr. Maya 100, is a physician and sexual health and social health disease specialist whose work centers access, representation, and community-informed care.
In a healthcare landscape where marginalized communities are too often left without adequate information, resources, or representation, Dr. Maya Green, widely known as Dr. Maya 100, is doing something radical: showing up. As a physician and sexual health and social health disease specialist, Dr. Maya has built her practice not just inside clinic walls, but in the spaces where people actually live their lives, on transit, in community forums, and in conversations that most medical professionals never dare to have.
Her approach is simple in theory and profound in practice: bring the information to the people, rather than waiting for the people to come to the information.
A doctor who goes where others won’t
Dr. Maya’s work is grounded in the recognition that access to sexual health education and STI care is not equally distributed. For many communities, particularly Black, brown, LGBTQIA+, and transgender communities, navigating the healthcare system can feel like an exercise in humiliation, exclusion, or invisibility. Dr. Maya disrupts that dynamic by meeting patients and community members where they are, including on public transit, creating touchpoints for health access in everyday spaces.
This isn’t gimmickry. It is a deliberate, evidence-informed strategy rooted in community health principles: when barriers to access are structural, the solution must be structural too.
Amplifying Voices the System Ignores
One of the most powerful dimensions of Dr. Maya’s work is her role as a moderator and platform-builder for those whose experiences are systematically erased from mainstream health conversations. On Transgender Day of Visibility, she moderated a conversation between two extraordinary voices, Dr. Tatyana Santiago, a Black woman of trans experience, U.S. Army veteran, and practitioner scholar, and Dr. Elijah Nicholas, a Black trans man, former pastor, military veteran of nearly 25 years, and children’s book author, that illustrated exactly why this kind of intentional space-making matters.
The conversation touched on identity, faith, military service, racial justice, and health access, all through the lens of lived transgender experience.
“Personally, it’s a day that I let myself be seen without all of the armor,” said Dr. Tatyana Santiago of Transgender Day of Visibility. “My existence is not a political position. It is not a debate. It is my life, and it is sacred.”
Dr. Elijah Nicholas pushed back on the tendency to abbreviate and thereby dilute meaning: “When we reduce those words to TDOV, I think we reduce the meaning of them, especially for people who don’t really understand what it is. For me, as an out Black trans man, Trans Day of Visibility is every single day, 365 days a year.”
The Health Implications of Erasure
Dr. Maya understands that health is never purely clinical. The social determinants, housing, safety, employment, community belonging, shape health outcomes as powerfully as any prescription. The stories shared in her moderated conversations make this concrete.
Dr. Nicholas spoke candidly about the long-term mental health costs of policies like Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “I spent the next 24 years, 10 months, and 8 days serving a country on a lie, an internal lie… I still have mental health implications as a result of serving during that era. I still go to therapy, and as long as I’m going to therapy, the taxpayer is paying for that. We don’t think down the line about the implications of the policies we implement.”
He also raised a critical, underreported issue in veteran transgender healthcare: “Veterans leaving the military today cannot get their gender-affirming care from the VA. Nobody is talking about that.”
Dr. Santiago brought sharp attention to the deadly intersection of race and trans identity: “Black trans women face the highest rates of homicide of any demographic in the United States. Those are not abstractions, those are human beings with names and futures that were stolen.”
These are the kinds of truths that Dr. Maya’s platform surfaces, not as talking points, but as urgent public health realities.
Information as a Form of Care
At the core of Dr. Maya’s mission is a belief that information itself is a form of healthcare. When people don’t know their options, their rights, or their risks, they cannot protect themselves. When doctors don’t speak plainly and accessibly, entire communities fall through the cracks.
The conversations she facilitates model what genuine health communication can look like: honest, culturally grounded, unafraid of complexity, and led by people with skin in the game.
Dr. Santiago articulated what real, meaningful support looks like in practice: “Know what legislation is being passed. Show up during public comments. Ask trans people in your life what it is that they actually need.” These are not just political calls to action, they are health interventions. Policy shapes access. Access shapes survival.
Paying Experts for Their Expertise
Dr. Maya’s work also implicitly challenges a culture in which Black and trans experts are invited to share their knowledge without compensation. Dr. Nicholas named it plainly: “One actionable thing is bringing us to the table and paying us for our work. I am a doctor. I have a dissertation, student loans, bills, and I’m a genius. Compensate me for my genius.”
By elevating credentialed, experienced voices from within the communities most affected by health disparities, and doing so in accessible, public-facing formats, Dr. Maya models what equitable health education looks like.
A Practice Built on Presence
What distinguishes Dr. Maya 100 is not just her medical expertise, but her willingness to be present in spaces that the healthcare system typically ignores. Whether on a bus, in a community forum, or behind a microphone facilitating a conversation that thousands needed to hear, she demonstrates that the gap between medical knowledge and community need is not inevitable. It is a choice. And she has chosen differently.
In a moment when 26 states have enacted some form of gender-affirming care ban, when Black trans people face violence and economic precarity at alarming rates, and when sexual health education remains woefully inadequate for the communities that need it most, Dr. Maya Green’s work is not supplementary. It is essential.
Dr. Maya Green, known as Dr. Maya 100, is a physician and sexual health and social health disease specialist whose work centers access, representation, and community-informed care.