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IT'S NOT ALL RAINBOWS—REFLECTING ON TRENDS IN LGBTQ HEALTHCARE FOR PRIDE 2023


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By Alex Card

Since 1970, June has been a period of affirmation and celebration for the LGBTQ
community. A month of parades and parties—like the fantastic one held at our
Framingham office last week—gives LGBTQ folks and our allies the chance to honor
the struggle for dignity, recognition, and equal rights through joy
and togetherness.

June is also a time for remembrance and a monthlong reminder that there’s plenty
more progress to be made. The struggle we honor was crystalized in the 1969
Stonewall Inn uprising that birthed Pride Month, and it continues today in our
streets and legislatures, as well as within the households, organizations, and
institutions that line our social fabric.

America’s healthcare system is one institution that has seen promising progress
and yet continues to underserve the LGBTQ community in disappointing ways. In
recognition of Pride Month, let’s take a look at the latest trends—for better
and for worse—impacting LGBTQ healthcare.


FOR WORSE: STATE LAWMAKERS PURSUE UNSCIENTIFIC BANS ON TRANSGENDER CARE

Thanks to decades of activism, increased representation in popular culture, and
protective legislation, the 1.6 million-plus transgender people living in the
U.S. are more visible than ever. But along with that visibility comes a backlash
against trans folks’ basic rights: to receive gender-affirming care, to publicly
present as the gender by which they identify, and even to use the bathroom that
aligns with their identity.

A 2022 Pew Research survey found that most Americans favor protecting
transgender people from discrimination in jobs, housing, and public spaces.
However, just 31% oppose criminalizing gender-affirming care for people under
18, with a full 41% in favor of banning care for trans youth.

The good news? Five U.S. states have announced legal protections for trans
healthcare. The bad? Twenty U.S. states have already enacted bans, with another
seven currently considering bans—some extending to trans adults up to age 26.

These bans are rooted in politics rather than science. Research has demonstrated
that gender-affirming care, including the use of puberty blockers and hormones,
is associated with considerably lower rates of depression and suicidality for
trans and nonbinary youth in the short and long term.

Multiple clinical studies have found provider-supervised testosterone and
estrogen therapy to be safe and effective in adults and children, for whom
puberty-blocking hormone treatment is reversible. Furthermore, this treatment is
endorsed by nearly every leading medical group representing more than 1.3
million physicians, according to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education
Fund’s Trans Health Project.

Politicians may gild these bills with half-hearted “think of the children”
messaging, but it’s kids who will likely suffer most. The Williams Institute at
the UCLA School of Law reported that more than 300,000 high school-aged trans
kids lived in the U.S. as of June 2022, with three in 10 living in states that
have already passed bans on gender-affirming care and more than 13% living in
states considering bills to restrict care. In March, the Williams Institute
estimated that 144,500 transgender youths have lost access to care or are at
risk of losing access due to pending legislation.

This loss of access to care amounts to forced detransitioning for many young
people, inevitably resulting in avoidable mental health crises as well as new
barriers to the pursuit of routine healthcare for an already stigmatized and
underserved population. For deeper insight into these challenges and the
transgender experience in healthcare and beyond, I highly recommend you check
out our conversation with Dr. Ben Haseen, an openly transgender author, health
advocate, and physician, on the Definitively Speaking podcast.


FOR BETTER: EFFORTS TO DESTIGMATIZE, IMPROVE ACCESS FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE IN
HEALTHCARE CONTINUE

The state of healthcare for LGBTQ people isn’t as rosy as we’d hope, but there
are signs of progress.

For years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibited or severely
restricted blood donations by men who have sex with men. Gay and bisexual men
were originally banned in order to protect the blood supply from HIV, but under
FDA guidance issued in January, blood donation centers moved to an individual
risk assessment model in March 2023.

Not only does this mean that more people are eligible to donate blood—welcome
news in a country where more than half of community blood centers operate with
two days of supply or less—but it also helps to combat the AIDS-era stigma that
gay and bisexual men are unclean or even dangerous due to their
sexual preferences.

We can see the unintended consequences of this stigma in the early treatment of
the mpox emergency—formerly referred to as monkeypox—in 2022. In the West, mpox
was almost exclusively sexually transmitted between gay and bisexual men, but
out of fear of stigmatizing this population, most early reports either buried
the lead or didn’t mention sexuality at
allhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/opinion/gay-men-mpox.html.

This framing may have been done with good intentions, but as a result, the media
and health authorities essentially failed to warn the most vulnerable population
of the risks they faced. By the time the U.S. government declared an end to the
mpox emergency in January 2023, there had been more than 30,000 cases and 42
deaths.

It’s easy to see how stigma can range from inconvenient and embarrassing to
deadly for LGBTQ people, especially when it prevents them from seeking or
receiving the care they need. On the brighter side, many providers and care
networks have opened centers and service lines specifically catering to the
needs of LGBTQ folks in the last several years. This year has seen the
introduction of inclusive care spaces by major players serving thousands of
patients, including NYC Health and Hospitals and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.

Most recently, legislators in both chambers of Congress are looking to legally
protect the LGBTQ community at the federal level through the introduction of an
amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would prohibit discrimination on
the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.

Whether the Equality Act could pass in our contentious political climate remains
to be seen. Still, the idea of nationwide protections for equal healthcare,
housing, employment, and education—currently only signed into law in 22 states
and outright opposed in one—is at least one more thing to be hopeful for as
Pride Month comes to a close.


LEARN MORE

The healthcare landscape is constantly evolving, and the state of LGBTQ care is
no different. Whether you’re working directly with LGBTQ patients or developing
solutions that support their care, you can be more effective by leveraging the
latest news, intelligence, and data on the procedures and diagnoses that impact
the community. Sign up a free trial of the Definitive Healthcare platform today
to see how you can do more with healthcare commercial intelligence.


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