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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Ben Singer, Rutgers University, 4503 Chester Ave. #3, Philadelphia, PA 19143, (215) 243-0459, bsinger@critpath.org
Discrimination against transgender and transsexual individuals can make access to health services highly problematic. Health care service providers have found that getting transpeople the services they need (e.g. substance use treatment, housing, and primary care) is difficult because providers may not want to work with trans-identified clients. Further, lack of sensitivity on the part of health care providers themselves, who may not respect the expressed gender identity of these individuals, can adversely influence whether they will access and stay in treatment. As indicated in a resolution passed by the American Public Health Association (March, 2000), a knowledge base must be built to aid health care providers in developing policies to increase their effectiveness when working with transpeople. This peer-based roundtable is a gathering of leading transhealth advocates working in clinic settings, AIDS service organizations and grassroots community coalitions. It is designed to fill the existing knowledge gap by exposing audience members to issues of barriers to access, explaining existing transhealth care delivery models and protocols, as well as facilitating a public discussion of these little addressed issues.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.