Straight for Equality Aims to Improve LGBT Health Care

 While affordable healthcare continues to be a major national issue, this is only one of the challenges facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people when it comes to their medical care. Too often, providers’ lack the basic cultural competency on LGBT issues, rely on misinformation or simply do not have access to simple and effective resources, creating barriers to adequate healthcare access for their LGBT patients. The release of Straight for Equality in Healthcare from aims to change this trend. This is the second publication from PFLAG National’s Straight for Equality project, which aims to help people have the everyday, nonpolitical conversations that need to occur in order to foster greater acceptance of LGBT people.

The new Straight for Equality in Healthcare guide was created with the assistance of a diverse committee if healthcare professionals in fields such as primary care, mental health, nursing, and allied health disciplines. Topics include:

• Why should I care about gay people in my practice?: The case for inclusion.
• Making a diagnosis: Understanding and identifying personal barriers around LGBT issues and specific steps on how to overcome them.
• Lidocane for your nerves: Being supportive need not be nerve-wracking. Simple, nonpolitical ways to start signaling acceptance of LGBT people in your practice are outlined.
• Resources: Basic terminology, sample inclusive intake forms, nondiscrimination policies, and connections to other resources.

“Making the case for inclusive and competent healthcare for LGBT patients is critical and by providing simple and accessible information to healthcare professionals, we can transform the experiences of LGBT people in the healthcare system. For many healthcare providers, it isn’t a case of not wanting to be inclusive of LGBT patients, but rather a sense that it isn’t an issue – or, when it is, confusion around how to talk about it – that gets in the way,” said Jody M. Huckaby, Executive Director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) National.

You can download materials for your own health care provider(s), and help ensure that the information is distributed to health care workers in your area.

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