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The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health care needs, to a lesbian couple dealing with the experience of cancer, to young trans people who struggle to find health care providers who treat them with dignity and respect. The book also includes essays by health care providers, activists, and leaders, with something to say about the challenges, politics, and opportunities surrounding queer and trans health issues.
Required Reading.
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Influential Medical Journal Devotes Series To Transgender Health Issues
The Lancet has published a special supplement on Transgender Health, which includes advice for health care professionals as well as calls for greater public health action towards stronger anti-discrimination policies policies, more gender-inclusive schools, bans on “conversion” therapies, increased access to affirming health care and surgery, as well as direction for further academic study, including prioritizing research in Asia,the Middle East, and Africa, and assessing the interplay between gender affirming therapies and interventions for chronic disease (e.g. in the case of diabetes).
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