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What priorities for health and healthcare access do women, trans, and nonbinary people who are lesbian, bi+, or queer (LBQ) in Canada have? What actions can be taken across sectors to address these priorities?
Egale’s research report “Healthcare access experiences and needs among LBQ women, trans, and nonbinary people in Canada: A research report” explores these questions, provides recommendations aimed at particular groups (e.g., educators, healthcare practitioners, policymakers), and issues a call to action for sectors to work together to improve healthcare access for LBQ women, trans, and nonbinary people in Canada.
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Egale’s Queering Mental Health Supports in Canada research report shows that there are persistent gaps in service delivery and quality of care for 2SLGBTQI people, and how imperative it is that mental health services and related social services address social determinants of mental health.
Research participants’ experiences illustrate the pandemic’s wide-ranging impacts on various social determinants of mental health, including access to mental healthcare and medical care, social support, employment, income, food security, and housing. In each of these areas, 2SLGBTQI people experience distinct challenges as a result of both structural- and interpersonal-level homophobia, transphobia, and cisheterosexism. These challenges are particularly pronounced for intersectionally marginalized folks, including 2SLGBTQI people who are racialized, living with a disability, or who are experiencing poverty and economic hardships.
Participants not only shared their experiences, they also shared recommendations for service providers and policy-makers on how to improve 2SLGBTQI mental healthcare to better meet their diverse needs. The recommendations are laid out within five themes: structural changes, accessibility, representation, intersectionality, and accountability.
Implementing the recommendations laid out in the report will not only ensure that 2SLGBTQI people receive the affirming and inclusive mental healthcare and related services they need but will also support 2SLGBTQI and allied service providers in their work of addressing the mental health concerns that have been amplified in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aging with Affirmation summarizes the findings of a study for which the aim was to explore the healthcare and social service experiences of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) older adults.
The research was borne out of a partnership between Egale Canada and a group of researchers from across Canada. Through focus groups with 21 participants, which comprised TGD older adults (ages 50+), service providers, and community advocates, we developed an understanding of how people who are aging and TGD experience systems of care and what they need from these systems in the context of their engagement.
Research findings are organized into five themes that together represented the perspectives of participants involved in the study:
historical context in experiences of structural oppression.
(in)visible precarity at the nexus of transness and older age.
intersectional expressions of contemporary state- and institutionally-sanctioned oppression.
resistance of TGD older adults and their allies across service settings.
closing current gaps: ground-up activities to build space for TGD older adults.