LGBTQIA+ & Transgender Health Introduction
LGBTQIA+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer / questioning, intersex, and asexual / aromantic / agender. The resources in this guide focus on healthcare, treatment, and the wellbeing of those in the LGBTQIA+ community. Members of these communities may face specific health needs such as gender affirming care and finding trustworthy doctors that they can visit regularly.
Some other acronyms for the community include: LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender), LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and, queer or questioning), or LGBTQQIP2AA ( lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, pansexual, two-spirit (2S), androgynous, and asexual.) The "+" sign is to recognize the limitless sexual orientations and gender identities used by members of the community.
Transgender Health refers to the specific health needs of transgendered individuals. Transgendered people need general healthcare, just like cisgendered people, but they may also have additional needs relating to their particular gender identity. This is sometimes referred to as gender-affirming care.
Some transgendered individuals make the choice to transition to align with their gender identity, through hormone therapy, puberty blockers, social affirmation, and/or surgery. A large hurdle that transgendered people face is finding qualified providers that are sensitive to and supportive of trans health needs. The information included in this section can help clinicians locate resources related to care of transgendered people.
Gender-affirming care affects many facets of transgender health, but mental health outcomes are of critical importance. The Trevor Project's National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health 2021 reported that "42% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth" and that "transgender and nonbinary youth who had access to spaces that affirmed their sexual orientation and gender identity reported lower rates of attempting suicide."
Resources Related to LGBTQIA+ Communities
Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health by
The contributors to Bodies and Barriers look for tangible improvements, drawing from the history of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and from struggles against health care bias and discrimination. At a galvanising moment when LGBT people have experienced great strides in lived equality, but our health as a community still lags, here is an indispensable blueprint for change by some of the most passionate and important health activists in the LGBT movement today.
ISBN: 9781629638010Publication Date: 2020
Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved by
BOOK CHAPTER: Out of the Shadows - Improving Health Care for Sexual Minority and Gender Diverse Individuals: Examines the challenging problem of providing psychotherapy services to underserved, often marginalized populations, both within and outside of the U.S.
ISBN: 9780190912727Publication Date: 2020
Comprehensive care of the transgender patient (ClinicalKey) by
Covers all aspects of transgender health care, beginning with epidemiology and history and progressing to an in-depth review of the complex transition for patients, including mental health services, endocrine and hormone therapy treatment, and surgical options.
ISBN: 9780323512268Publication Date: 2020
Counseling Special Populations in Schools by
BOOK CHAPTER: Counseling Students Who Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning: Provides school-based mental health professionals with practical, specific strategies for counseling special populations of students who are at risk for academic, social, emotional, and behavioral problems in school. These special populations include students who are homeless, living in foster care, involved with the juvenile justice system, LGBTQ, pregnant or parenting, gifted, in military families, at-risk for school failure and dropout, and impacted by incarcerated parents.
ISBN: 9780199355785Publication Date: 2016
Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Geriatrics, 3/e by
BOOK CHAPTER: Meeting the Unique Needs of LGBT Older Adults > Policy Issues Affecting LGBT Older Adults: Covers the unique challenges clinicians are facing today, such as policies concerning special populations, care in collaboration with teams, and working within healthcare systems.
ISBN: 9781260457087Publication Date: 2020-10-21
Fitzpatrick's Dermatology, Ninth Edition, 2-Volume Set by
BOOK CHAPTER: Caring for LGBT Persons in Dermatology: Covers all of the essentials, from the basic science of the skin to the day-to-day clinical issues of managing common skin disorders.
ISBN: 9780071837798Publication Date: 2019-03-19
Handbook of Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice with Sexual and Gender Minorities by
This resource offers a comprehensive array of evidence-based approaches for treating sexual and gender minority clients' mental health concerns.
ISBN: 9780190669300Publication Date: 2019
Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment by
This 38-chapter handbook reviews current knowledge of positive body image and embodiment, as well as future directions for work in these areas, which will be useful for mental health researchers, practitioners, advocates, and activists.
ISBN: 9780190841874Publication Date: 2019
Individual Diversity and Psychology in Organizations by
Workplace initiatives to manage diversity seek to fully develop the potential of each employee and turn their unique skills into a business advantage. Such fostering of difference enhances team creativity, innovation and problem-solving and is therefore an essential strategy for today's employers.
ISBN: 9780471499718Publication Date: 2003
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare by
This important text fills an informational void about the practical health needs of LGBT patients in both the primary care and specialty settings remains, and serves as a guide for LGBT preventive and specialty medicine that can be utilized within undergraduate medical education, residency training, and medical practice.
ISBN: 9783319197517Publication Date: 2016
LGBTQ Cultures by
This vital guide fills the LGBTQ awareness gaps, including replacing myths and stereotypes with facts, and measuring the effects of social stigma on health. Vital for all nursing specialties, this is the seminal guide to actively providing appropriate, culturally sensitive care to persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
ISBN: 9781496394606Publication Date: 2017
Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, Populations, Second Edition by
BOOK CHAPTER: The Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients: Comprehensive in scope and authored by many of the leading names in the field, the book takes complex concepts and issues and helps you understand them, resulting in a "roadmap" to guide real-world applications and compliance with the terms of the law.
ISBN: 9780071834445Publication Date: 2016-06-21
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstrual Studies by
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: '"what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?" The chapters--diverse in content, form and perspective--establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.
ISBN: 9789811506130Publication Date: 2020
Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice by
BOOK CHAPTER: Multiculturalism and Care Delivery:Offers the most immediately relevant content of any emergency medicine reference, providing diagnostic and treatment recommendations with clear indications and preferred actions.
ISBN: 9780323354790Publication Date: 2017
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling by
Studies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth show them to be at risk for some of the greatest difficulties experienced by adolescents: many of those problems have been traced directly to negative experiences in schooling. After more than a decade of research focused on the experiences of LGBT students in schools, a new generation of studies has begun to identify characteristics of schools that are associated with inclusion and safety for LGBT students, including practices and policies that are associated with positive school climate and student well-being. This book brings together contributions from a diverse group of researchers, policy analysts, and education practitioners from around the world to synthesize the implications for practice and policy of contemporary research on sexual orientation, gender identity, and schooling.
ISBN: 9780199387656Publication Date: 2016
Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual by
Written by clinicians engaged in the day-to-day practice of emergency medicine, this handy manual is derived from Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, 7e, the field's most trusted text. Composed of brief chapters focusing on clinical features, diagnosis and differential, and emergency management and disposition, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual is designed to help you provide skillful and timely patient care.
Edition: 8thISBN: 9780071837026Publication Date: 2018
Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: the Fenway Guide by
The very first textbook of its kind delivers the evidence- and case-based review clinicians need to address the unique healthcare realities of transgender and gender diverse adults As the visibility and acceptance of transgender and gender diverse adults increases, the demand for state-of-the-art health care services increases, too. Fenway Guide to Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care offers everything you to provide basic, culturally responsive care that meets the primary, preventive, and specialty health needs of transgender and gender diverse adults patients. With the most up-to-date scientific and clinical information, this comprehensive, practical guide reviews new data on terminology, demographics, and epidemiology; highlights key aspects of gender identity emergence across the lifespan; and provides comprehensive instruction on both hormonal and surgical gender affirmation. Applying a health-equity model of care, it offers a roadmap that clinicians can use when addressing health needs of transgender and gender diverse communities.
ISBN: 9781260459937Publication Date: 2021-10-08
Williams Gynecology, Fourth Edition by
BOOK CHAPTER: Well Woman Care > Care of the Transgender Patient: Delivers comprehensive, evidence-based coverage of the full spectrum of gynecologic healthcare and disease management--from benign general gynecology to reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and menopause to female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery to gynecologic oncology.
ISBN: 9781260456868Publication Date: 2020
Women's Health Across the Lifespan by
BOOK CHAPTER: LGBT, Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Cultural Sensitivity > Intersectionality: A groundbreaking publication, a unique primary reference developed to help educate pharmacy students, pharmacists and other health care professionals in an area of deservedly growing interest and importance. This book contains contributions from more than 150 clinical experts in pharmacy, medicine and nursing.
ISBN: 9781585281947Publication Date: 2010- Women's Health Across the Lifespan by
BOOK CHAPTER: LGBT, Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Cultural Sensitivity : A groundbreaking publication, a unique primary reference developed to help educate pharmacy students, pharmacists and other health care professionals in an area of deservedly growing interest and importance. This book contains contributions from more than 150 clinical experts in pharmacy, medicine and nursing.
ISBN: 9781585281947Publication Date: 2010
Youth Suicide and Bullying by
BOOK CHAPTER: Welcoming Schools: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Gender-Inclusive Bullying Prevention in Elementary Schools: Chapters provide details on models of interpersonal aggression; groups at risk for both bullying and suicide (such as sexual minorities); the role of stigma; family, school, and community-based youth bullying and suicide prevention programs, and more. Each chapter concludes with recommendations for mental health providers, educators, and policymakers.
ISBN: 9780199950706Publication Date: 2014
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- Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Scholarly journal dedicated to the dissemination of information in the field of sexual orientation and gender diversity
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Publishes research on sexual and reproductive health, rights, law and policies including family planning, sexual violence, HIV, STIs, and maternal health.
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National/International Organizations
- Advocates for Youth Partners with youth leaders, adult allies, and youth-serving organizations to advocate for policies and champion programs that recognize young people’s rights to honest sexual health information; accessible, confidential, and affordable sexual health services; and the resources and opportunities necessary to create sexual health equity for all youth.
- Children of Lesbian and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) National organization expressly dedicated to supporting people with one or more LGBTQ+ caregivers, uniting them with a network of peers and supporting them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in their communities.
- Family Equality Council Advances legal and lived equality for LGBTQ families, and for those who wish to form them, through building community, changing hearts and minds, and driving policy change.
- Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) Works to ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. Together, we can transform our nation’s K-12 schools into the safe and affirming environment all youth deserve.
- Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Nonprofit organization dedicated to broadening quality health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Provides information on many health-related topics.
- Gender Spectrum Works to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens.
- GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality World's largest and oldest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) healthcare professionals.
- Human Rights Campaign Works to ensure that all LGBTQ people, and particularly those of us who are trans, people of color and HIV+, are treated as full and equal citizens within our movement, across our country and around the world.
- Lambda Legal National organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
- National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) National legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.
- National Center or Transgender Equality (NCTE) Advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.
- National LGBTQ Task Force Advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people, training and mobilizing millions of activists across our nation to deliver a world where you can be you.
- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies.
- SAGE National Headquarters National organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older people and their caregivers.
- Trans Youth Equality Foundation (TYEF) Provides education, advocacy and support for transgender and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families.
- Trans Youth Family Allies (TYFA) Empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health.