Gender Affirming Care
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This website is designed to provide information about transgender and gender diverse (TGD)* college students to university healthcare providers. Explore the pages within to find information for mental and medical health providers and higher ed professionals.
*This site will use the following terms interchangeably: transgender and gender diverse (TGD), trans, transgender
One survey showed over half of queer people were faced with providers who denied them care or blamed their problems on their sexual or gender identity.
This infographic depicts four facts about mental health in the Queer Community including rates of mental health concerns, barriers to treatment, and discrimination faced by the queer community. It finishes with a call to action to providers of mental health services to increase their competencies around working with the queer community. It includes colorful images that represent the LGBTQ+ Community
Source: https://mhanational.org/issues/lgbtq-communities-and-mental-health