Despite progress, LGBTQ+ communities say finding empathic healthcare can still be a major challenge
Zavier Wileman had been going to the same general practice since they were a kid, but once they began their transition as a teenager they began to feel like the doctors ‘just didn’t really understand gender at all’.Zavier Wileman had been going to the same general practice since they were a kid, but once they began their transition as a teenager they began to feel like the doctors ‘just didn’t really understand gender at all’.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup would not prescribe pain relief for a painful, three-hour electrolysis procedure to remove facial hair. Prof Adam Bourne, the director of the Australian research centre in sex, health and society at La Trobe University, says the report findings “very much reflect what we observe in every state”.
Progress is being made, with the federal government preparing the first ever national action plan for LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing, due for release later this year. The plan’s expert advisory group says engagement with LGBTIQA+ community controlled services is essential, given unsafe and negative experiences in primary care and challenges related to access and costs.
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