Here's how to fd an LGBTQ iendly doctor who is a willg ally to gay, trans, and queer people and unrstand their healthre needs.
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POLICI ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR & QUEER (LGBTQ) ISSU
Search the largt LGBTQ+ healthre directory for affirmg provirs who unrstand lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer health. * gay doctors association *
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. Workg wh the APA and public agenci to fluence polici relevant to the lbian and gay muny. Yet gay, transgenr, and queer people often have a hard time fdg LGBTQIA+-iendly doctors.
LGBTQIA+ people livg areas wh lots of anti-gay prejudice live about 12 years shorter than those more acceptg areas. Do they have trans, gay, queer, or other LGBTQIA+ patients? The Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn provir directory lets you fd doctors who are LGBTQIA+ themselv.
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Fd remend standards of practice wh lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr patients and addnal rourc to assist makg your practice LGBTQ-iendly.
Consult the Guil of Care for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) Patients (PDF), created by the Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn, for advice on munitg wh LGBTQ patients, guil for forms and patient-provir discsns and more. Listen to the Journal of Medil Practice Management podst “Expandg to the Gay and Lbian Market: What Savvy Medil Practic Know, " an rmative, half-hour-long discsn wh Ellen Kahn, director of the Human Rights Campaign Foundatn's Fay Project. The Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn (GLMA) is the natnal lear LGBTQ health issu, and their GLMA Provir Directory is a ee-to-the-public listg of LGBTQ-iendly practic the Uned Stat.
Unrlyg the ‘therapi’ is the assumptn that homosexualy and genr nonnformy are mental disorrs and that sexual orientatn and genr inty n be changed. Profsnal nsens rejects pathologizg homosexualy and genr nonnformy and evince do not support the efficy of changg sexual orientatn. The practic may crease suicidal behavrs and e signifint psychologil distrs, anxiety, lowered self-teem, ternalized homophobia, self-blame, tsive imagery and sexual dysfunctn.