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Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Panel
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Objectives
• Describe healthcare issues related to transgender/gender non-binary patients.
• Understand the physical and mental health challenges faced by transgender/gender non-binary patients in accessing health services.
• Discuss strategies to improve health care for transgender/gender non-binary patients.
• Identify how to improve patient experience for transgender/gender non-binary patients for better overall healthcare outcomes.
Description
Few groups face more daunting health challenges than transgender and gender non-binary Americans, more than 52 percent of whom, according to one recent survey, have seriously contemplated suicide. Making matters even worse, physicians and health care providers too often lack the sensitivity and education required to offer their transgender patients the best care. This panel of experts and advocates will survey the landscape and propose concrete ways in which health systems, policy makers, and other interested parties can work together to make sure transgender patients receive the care they need and deserve.
How cultural humility and diversity will be addressed
Each day, healthcare providers care for patients from diverse cultures and backgrounds, including those who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ). LGB, and sometimes Q, represent sexual orientation, or one’s sexual and/or romantic, whereas transgender is a term used when one’s sex assigned at birth differs from their current gender identity, or one’s sense of being male, female, both, neither, or something else. To facilitate productive health partnerships, health care providers need to be aware of a patient’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression.
This session will enable healthcare providers to learn strategies that can enable them to provide better healthcare to transgender/gender non-binary patients.
Moderator: Ryan O’Connell, MS, CHES
Research Instructor
University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
Panel members:
Samantha Montemayor
Oasis Case Manager
Latino Commission on AIDS
Aoife Finch
Systems Analyst
Western WA University
Rev. Louis Mitchell
Executive Director
Transfaith
Mejour Mook
Economic Justice Coordinator
POCAAN
Objectives
• Describe healthcare issues related to transgender/gender non-binary patients.
• Understand the physical and mental health challenges faced by transgender/gender non-binary patients in accessing health services.
• Discuss strategies to improve health care for transgender/gender non-binary patients.
• Identify how to improve patient experience for transgender/gender non-binary patients for better overall healthcare outcomes.
Description
Few groups face more daunting health challenges than transgender and gender non-binary Americans, more than 52 percent of whom, according to one recent survey, have seriously contemplated suicide. Making matters even worse, physicians and health care providers too often lack the sensitivity and education required to offer their transgender patients the best care. This panel of experts and advocates will survey the landscape and propose concrete ways in which health systems, policy makers, and other interested parties can work together to make sure transgender patients receive the care they need and deserve.
How cultural humility and diversity will be addressed
Each day, healthcare providers care for patients from diverse cultures and backgrounds, including those who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ). LGB, and sometimes Q, represent sexual orientation, or one’s sexual and/or romantic, whereas transgender is a term used when one’s sex assigned at birth differs from their current gender identity, or one’s sense of being male, female, both, neither, or something else. To facilitate productive health partnerships, health care providers need to be aware of a patient’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression.
This session will enable healthcare providers to learn strategies that can enable them to provide better healthcare to transgender/gender non-binary patients.
Moderator: Ryan O’Connell, MS, CHES
Research Instructor
University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
Panel members:
Samantha Montemayor
Oasis Case Manager
Latino Commission on AIDS
Aoife Finch
Systems Analyst
Western WA University
Rev. Louis Mitchell
Executive Director
Transfaith
Mejour Mook
Economic Justice Coordinator
POCAAN
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