Bias toward historilly margalized patients affects patient-provir teractns and n lead to lower qualy of re and poor health out for patients who are Black, Indigeno, People of Color (BIPOC) and Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Genr Diverse (LGBTQ+). We gathered experie …
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STUDY: IMPLIC BIAS AGAST LBIANS, GAYS DECREASG ACROSS DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS
So even if you don’t thk you are homophobic or transphobic any way, there are likely to be some unnsc bias unr the surface—jt as a product of livg a society where beg heterosexual and cisgenr is portrayed as the norm. Even if you’re supportive of the ia of gay parents and other fay nfiguratns, you might not realize how graed this “flt” is your bra. The assumptn that gay or bisexual people are promiscuo or have many sexual partners: Some queer people may choose to have many sexual partners, some may be monogamo, and some may be on the asexual spectm or simply not have an active sex life—so, the array is pretty much the same as wh heterosexual people.
The stereotype that gay men are “feme” or that lbians are “mascule”: Certaly there are parts of gay male culture that embrace tradnally feme quali and pastim, and parts of lbian culture that embrace tradnally male quali and pastim—but when ed as a generalizatn, this is a stereotype bee don’t apply to all gay men jt bee they are gay or all lbian women jt bee they are lbians. Thkg that everyone fs only one tegory—gay, straight, transgenr, asexual, etc. But is mon for someone to intify as more than one tegory (for example, transgenr and lbian, or gay and asexual).