Search the largt LGBTQ+ healthre directory for affirmg provirs who unrstand lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer health.
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If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place. A few ways you n fd a gay-iendly ntist: ask your iends, search onle, or vis a webse and ask other members of LGBT muny. However, may be help your ntist if they are aware of your inty as many gay patients have health needs that non-LGBT patients don’t have.
Do my ntist need to know if I am LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or qutng)? At ntal school thgs were a ltle different - I do remember once havg to tell off some of my younger unrgraduate classmat for g the word 'gay' as an sult (they were sat behd me a lecture, attemptg to sult each other) - they took the feedback on board and there weren't many cints like this, but 's always a b surprisg and dishearteng to hear young people, cludg lleagu wh healthre, makg jok at the expense of gay and transgenr are your thoughts on patients seekg out a ntist that reflects their beliefs/valu - this se LGBT clive? Call out anti-trans or homophobic abe whenever you see such as microaggrsive ments passed off as a 'joke'.
Reports of hate crim agast gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people nearly tripled between 2015 - 2020. Transgenr people particular have been the target of creasgly hostile attacks by mastream media, wh many 'fears' echog those leveraged agast gay men the 80s durg the AIDS crisis (notns of 'spreadg disease' and 'preyg on young children' beg mon trop for both groups). Let's make sure as ntists we are on the right si of history when to supportg LGBT people and challengg homophobic or transphobic rhetoric and policy when we see .