#TakeRoot13: Queer Health Workshop
Panel from Take Root conference, red state perspectives on reproductive justice. Took place in Norman, Oklahoma, February 15 and 16, 2013.
- This workshop helps to educate participants on queer and trans* terminology, HIV/AIDS prevention, and related issues. This is our guide to why queer health IS part of our fight for reproductive justice and helpful ways to talk about it in your work and activism.
- Facilitator: Ricky Hill
- Social determinants of health include: work, education, employment, water, sanitation, services, housing, etc. #takeroot13
- Not just about the larger scale, not just about an individual's choices; health is a complex relationship between these #takeroot13
- Queer folks face employment discrimination, eviction, retirement and adoption discrimination, etc that has an impact on health #takeroot13
- "Bullying" rhetoric sanitizes reality: it's people bashing queer kids #this #takeroot13
- Awful misinformation about queer health (or lack thereof) directly harms queer folks seeking services #takeroot13
- Doctors are uneducated or bigoted, schools spread misinformation that prevents diagnosis, risk management, etc. #takeroot13
- Injustice at Every Turn; amazing report by the NGLTF about trans health disparities #takeroot13
- Trans and gender variant folks more often than not have to educate their health providers. Big issue in red states #takeroot13
- The 3 P's: people, programs, and policies; how you include lgbtq issues in your rj framework #takeroot13
- Queer folks in red states do EVERYTHING with NOTHING #storyofourlives #takeroot13
- We don't know the ramifications of removing GID from the DSM; people depend on the diagnosis for hormones/treatment #takeroot13
