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We enlist the best Queer-competent practitioners in the country to help us build safe and effective protocols that speak our language, understand our culture history, respect our choices and regard our lives as the defining paradigm.And then I add, I dont need a lecture on how babies are made Im gay.A Lesbian friend: My wife and I were required to see a social worker before we started IVF.
But she seemed to spend most of the visit asking countless questions about what it was like for us a lesbian couple. And then she veered into a lengthy monologue about how great it was going to be to have two moms raising one kid. A gay male friend: I went to my doctor to ask about PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV). I thought it would be simple and like I was being responsible. Instead he was asked Why do you want to do that Are you planning to be risky Are you planning to cheat on your boyfriend I felt attacked and ashamed. A trans friend: When I decided I was interested in transitioning I didnt know where to go. I finally found a clinic a few towns over that some friends had gone to. They were friendly enough, but it was like being interrogated. The doctor kept asking me all kinds of questions about how long I had been living as a man and whether I had attempted suicide. I eventually decided to order hormones online from an overseas pharmacy. It was basically illegal but it was just easier than going to the doctors office. For many in the Queer community, these kinds episodes are the best we can hope for. So how do we begin We begin by dispensing with the notion that health care is just about diagnosing treating disease. The diagnostic model is part of the reason why the healthcare system remains unable to build truly patient-centered services. The diagnostic model gives medicine the power to name what is normal what is healthy. And for the Queer community, the notion of normal has always been used against us. But it is just an instrument toward the greater end of human health happiness. So what do we build in place of the traditional model of care We start with the reasons people seek care; wholeness, safety, happiness, belonging, pleasure, family and identity. For the Queer community it begins with support to: Love whom we want to love Shape our bodies as we see fit Freely explore and express our gender sexuality Form grow our chosen relationships families In any and every way that gives us the greatest consensual happiness freedom. ![]() ![]()
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