LGBTQ+ People

LGBTQ+ people are individuals whose gender, sexual orientation, and/or romantic orientation is different from the heterosexual, cisgender norms most commonly-accepted in our society. LGBTQ+ is an umbrella acronym that references an incredible diversity of nuanced human identities, including: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Agender, Two Spirit, Nonbinary, Gender Fluid, Genderqueer, Gender Non-Conforming (GNC), Asexual, Aromantic, Demisexual, Demiromantic, Pansexual, Graysexual, Questioning, and many more.


LGBTQ+ people belong everywhere. They deserve to live open, authentic lives without fear of discrimination, harassment, judgement, or violence. Despite decades of tireless advocacy, however, LGBTQ+ people still experience disproportionately worse health outcomes, endure ongoing discrimination, and are four times more likely to experience violence than their straight and cisgender peers. These disparities are often further compounded by isolation and a lack of access to appropriate primary and mental health care. LGBTQ+ individuals who are Transgender, disabled, youth, and/or people of color are most impacted.


There are many factors–both historical and contemporary–which give rise to and perpetuate these harsh disparities. One significant factor is the lack of consistent legal protections regarding gender identity, expression, and sexual/romantic orientation. Decisions and policies—such as appropriate use of force by law enforcement, bathroom rights, businesses’ rights to refuse service, HIV criminalization laws, and transgender healthcare standards—vary dramatically by state and local jurisdiction. When layered with similar lack of protections against racial injustice, the risks are even more significant for LGBTQ+ people of color.


Equal rights, personal safety, equitable health outcomes, and social inclusion and belonging are all fundamental building blocks of individual and community wellbeing. LGBTQ+ people deserve to live fulfilling lives as their authentic selves, safe in their home communities. When we advocate for the wellbeing of marginalized community members, we advocate for the wellbeing of entire communities.


Changes to policies and laws that protect LGBTQ+ people at home, at work, and in public, regardless of their state or local jurisdiction, can improve LGBTQ+ peoples’ wellbeing at scale. Local communities can support LGBTQ+ businesses, create safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth, push for EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) trainings, and advocate for policies that protect LGBTQ+ people from violence, harassment, and discrimination in all aspects of their lives.


     

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Priority Populations Channel
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Intro to Traumatic Stress: Trauma, Stress, and Trauma-Informed Practice for Community Health and Well-Being
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Taking Action to End Gun Violence: Our Top Tools, Resources, Stories, and Data
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Beyond Allyship: Leveraging Activism Tools to Improve Transgender and Nonbinary Health
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Published on 01/26/2022
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Beyond Inclusion: Pronoun Use for Health and Well-Being
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The Growing Gap: Gender Pay Equity, Meaningful Work, and Wealth during COVID-19
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Urban Policy, Space and Wellbeing: A Move Towards LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Planning
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Trans Health Project - Medicaid Regulations And Guidance
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Banned Books: Maia Kobabe explores gender identity in 'Gender Queer'
Resource - Podcast
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Want to Hire More Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Folks at Your Agency? These Staffers Have Some Blunt Advice
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LGBTQI Trauma and Internalized Shame
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LGBT People With Disabilities
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Inclusive Healthy Places: A Guide to Bridging the Health Equity Gap in Our Public Spaces
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In Common Newsletter: Thriving Campuses Toolkit
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Model Transgender Employment Policy: Negotiating for Inclusive Workplaces
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Queering Public Space
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Blueprint for Positive Change 2020
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Informed Consent in the Medical Care of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Patients
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Discrimination Prevents LGBTQ People From Accessing Health Care
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Talking about Pronouns in the Workplace
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Gallup's LGBTQ+ Research of the Past and the Future
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The Queer City: How To Design More Inclusive Public Space
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Changemakers for an Inclusive and Just Future
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2018 Gender-Expansive Youth Report
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Identifying the Intersection of Trauma and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Part I: Key Considerations
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A New LGBTQ Workforce Has Arrived—Inclusive Cultures Must Follow
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How Our Liberation and Joy Are Being Hijacked by the LGBTQ+ Nonprofit Sector
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Huge Mental Health Gap for Gender-Minority College Students
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Inclusive Bathroom Signage Recommendations
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The Big Joy Project
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2015 U.S. Transgender Survey: Report on the Experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native Respondents
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Ask an Advocate
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Celebrating and Supporting LGBTQ+ People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Resource - Journal Article
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Transgender Workplace Rights
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Public Health Is Missing Crucial Data on LGBTQIA+ People. It’s Not Hard To Collect.
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Queer, Disabled People Like Me Are Excluded From LGBTQ+ Spaces – It Is Dividing Our Community
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What is the Relationship Between Pronouns and Health Equity?
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Do No Harm Guide: Collecting, Analyzing, and Reporting Gender and Sexual Orientation Data
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The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People
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What Does It Mean to Be Two-Spirit?
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MyPronouns.org Resources on Personal Pronouns
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons & Socioeconomic Status
Resource - Fact Sheet
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Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Behavioral Health: Results from the 2021 and 2022 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
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What is Gender Dysphoria?
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In Common Newsletter: Beyond Allyship
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LGBT Foundation: Evidence Exchange
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Moving from Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria
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Planning Inclusive Spaces for LGBTQIA+ Communities
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Study Affirms LGBTQ People are More Likely to Have a Disability than the General Population
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LGBTQ Vets Discharged Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Have New Chance For Full Benefits
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Libraries Are for Everyone: Inclusive Programming for the LGBTQ+ Community
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LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%
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Rural LGBTQ+ Americans Face Health Disparities, but Communities Revealed Strengths
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Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative
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When Gender Identity Doesn’t Equal Sex Recorded at Birth: The Role of the Laboratory in Providing Effective Healthcare to the Transgender Community
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LGBTQ Youth-Serving Community-Based Organizations: Who Participates and What Difference Does it Make?
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Queer Reproductive Justice?
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Arresting dress: A timeline of anti-cross-dressing laws in the United States
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Seven Ways You Can Foster a More Inclusive LGBTQIA+ Learning Environment
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Dismantling a Culture of Violence: Understanding Violence Against Transgender and Non-Binary People and Ending the Crisis
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Under Fire 2: Erasing LGBTQ People from Schools and Public Life
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180 Organizations Call for Routine LGBTQI+ Health Data Collection
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Model Local Education Agency Policy on Transgender and Nonbinary Students
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Analysis Shows Startling Levels of Discrimination Against Black Transgender People
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The Mental Health and Well-Being of Latinx LGBTQ Young People
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PDF Cover: LGBTQ-Inclusive Data Collection: A Lifesaving Imperative
LGBTQ-Inclusive Data Collection: A Lifesaving Imperative
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Employment Nondiscrimination
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Experiences of LGBTIQA+ People with Disability in Healthcare and Community Services: Towards Embracing Multiple Identities
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Study Finds That Early Social Transition For Transgender Youth Results In Good Mental Health Outcomes, But Unaccepting School Environments May Lead To Greater Risk Of Suicidality
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National Alliance on Mental Illness: LGBTQ+
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Under Fire: The War LGBTQ People in America
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Affirming Trans and Non-Binary Youth in Our Jewish Communities
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Cover page of LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool
LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool
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2015 U.S. Transgender Survey breakout report covers for Black, Latinx/o/a, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander respondents
2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Reports
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How Science is Helping Us Understand Gender
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Cities and Counties With Non-Discrimination Ordinances That Include Gender Identity
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Surgeries on Intersex Infants Are Bad Medicine: Ethical Concerns Addressed
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Eating Disorder Statistics
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Gun Violence Against Sexual and Gender Minorities in the United States
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Nondiscrimination Laws: Housing, Public Accommodations, Credit
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Bright Spot: d-up: Defend Yourself!
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Primary Care Initiated Gender-Affirming Therapy for Gender Dysphoria: A Review of Evidence Based Guidelines
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This is How Joy Affects Your Body
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PDF Cover: Stress and Trauma Toolkit for Treating LGBTQ People in a Changing Political and Social Environment
Stress and Trauma Toolkit for Treating LGBTQ People in a Changing Political and Social Environment
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Inclusion as an Economic Necessity
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PDF Cover: Improved Data Collection for Our LGBTQ Population is Needed to Improve Health Care and Reduce Health Disparities
Improved Data Collection for Our LGBTQ Population is Needed to Improve Health Care and Reduce Health Disparities
Resource - Journal Article
PDF Cover page: Disarm Hate: the Deadly Intersection of Guns and Hate Crimes
Disarm Hate: The Deadly Intersection of Guns and Hate Crimes
Resource - Journal Article
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WPATH Transgender Standards of Care (Version 7)
Resource - Guide/handbook
PDF Cover: Identity-Based Hate and Violence as Trauma: Current Research, Clinical Implications, and Advocacy in a Globally Connected World
Identity-Based Hate and Violence as Trauma: Current Research, Clinical Implications, and Advocacy in a Globally Connected World
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GLSEN Pronoun Guide
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Victimization Rates and Traits of Sexual and Gender Minorities in the United States: Results From the National Crime Victimization Survey
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Meet The Black Queer And Trans Women Making History With Radical Approaches Toward Nonprofit Work
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Including People with Lived Experience (PWLE)
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WPATH Transgender Standards of Care (Version 8)
Resource - Guide/handbook
PDF Cover: Electronic Health Records as an Equity Tool for LGBTQIA+ People
Electronic health records as an equity tool for LGBTQIA+ people
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LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center
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Eating Disorders in LGBTQ Populations
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Fight State-Level Anti-Trans Legislation
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PDF Cover: Using Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Sex, and Sex-at-Birth Variables in Analysis
Using Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Sex, and Sex-at-Birth Variables in Analysis
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Transgender Noninclusive Healthcare and Delaying Care Because of Fear: Connections to General Health and Mental Health Among Transgender Adults
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LGBTQ Health: The Data Trail
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Protecting Transgender Rights to Ensure Health Equity for All
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LGBTQ Curricular Laws
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Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity
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Transgender Incarcerated People in Crisis
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What Does the Scholarly Research Say About the Effect of Gender Transition on Transgender Well-Being?
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How Health Care Leaders Can Prioritize Health Equity for the LGBTQIA2+ Community
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Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey
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Transgender People and Bathroom Access
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Know Your Rights: LGBTQ Rights
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Minority Stress Theory: Application, Critique, and Continued Relevance
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In Common Newsletter: The Growing Gap
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Published on 03/23/2022
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Pronouns Usage Among LGBTQ Youth
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Trauma, Discrimination and PTSD Among LGBTQ+ People
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Breaking Barriers to Quality Mental Health Care for LGBTQ Youth
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LGBT Data Collection
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Informed Consent Model for Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy
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Using Chosen Names Reduces Odds of Depression and Suicide in Transgender Youths
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A Call to Action: LGBTQ+ Youth Need Inclusive Sex Education
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PDF Cover Page: LGBTQ+ and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Experiences and Challenges
LGBTQ + and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Experiences and Challenges
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Creating Equal Access to Quality Health Care for Transgender Patients: Transgender-Affirming Hospital Policies
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PDF Cover: Planning and Implementing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection in Electronic Health Records
Planning and Implementing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection in Electronic Health Records
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Phase 3.2 of Census Bureau Survey Questions Now Include SOGI, Child Tax Credit, COVID Vaccination of Children
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Cover of PDF Report: LGBTQ Policy Spotlight: Efforts to Ban Health Care for Transgender Youth
LGBTQ Policy Spotlight: Efforts to Ban Health Care for Transgender Youth
Resource - Policy Brief
Focus Population: LGBTQ People
Focus Population: LGBTQ People
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Not Up for Debate: LGBTQ People Need and Deserve Tailored Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
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State-level Data Show Schools Can Facilitate LGBTQ Students’ Access to Relevant Physical Health Services
Resource - Report
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Hate Violence Against Transgender Communities
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FACT SHEET: President Biden Signs Executive Order To Strengthen Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Across the Federal Government
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Let’s Talk About Identity-Based Trauma
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Guidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People
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Searchable LGBTQ Resource Database
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Analysis: How Anti-Trans Laws Jeopardize Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Religious Expression
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Identity & Eating Disorders
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Early Insights: A Report of the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey
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Focus on Forms and Policy: Creating an Inclusive Environment for LGBT Patients
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Multiple Minority Stress and LGBT Community Resilience Among Sexual Minority Men
Resource - Journal Article
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Protecting and Advancing Health Care for Transgender Adult Communities
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Ask an Advocate: LGBTQ Health Caucus
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LGBT Identification Rises to 5.6% in Latest U.S. Estimate
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For Many Native Americans, Embracing LGBT Members Is a Return to the Past
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The Census Bureau’s First Ever Data on LGBTQ+ People Indicates Deep Disparities
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Brown County’s Residents of Color and LGBTQ+ Residents Say They’re Struggling, Says Wello Survey
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The Trans Community of Christopher Street
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The Anti-Trans Panic Is Rooted in White Supremacist Ideology
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Published on 05/19/2023
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Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ Identities: Today and Centuries Ago
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The Double Minority Effect: The Struggles of Identifying as Autistic and LGBTQIA+
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Sylvia Rivera
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LGBT Data: Who Is Helping to Fill the Gap?
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Published on 01/19/2017
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The Power of Inclusive Spaces: LGBTQIA+ Health and Well-Being
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Video: For Trans People, It’s Difficult and Costly to Update an ID. But It Can Also Be Dangerous Not To.
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LGBTQ+ People and Identity-Based Stress
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Joy as Healthcare: Advancing Health Equity for Gender Expansive People
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Published on 06/25/2024
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Dear (Cis) People Who Put Your Pronouns On Your “Hello My Name Is” Name Tags
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As Oxford, Michigan Mourns Following School Shooting, It Turns Out Queer Gun Control Activist X Gonzalez Was Right All Along
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Counting All in Our Communities: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data
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The Anti-Drag Bills Sweeping the U.S. Are Straight From History's Playbook
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Published on 03/06/2023
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I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me: Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US
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Household Pulse Survey Shows LGBT Adults More Likely to Report Living in Households With Food and Economic Insecurity Than Non-LGBT Respondents
Household Pulse Survey Shows LGBT Adults More Likely to Report Living in Households With Food and Economic Insecurity Than Non-LGBT Respondents
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Transgender Amid Orthodoxy: I Am Who I Will Be
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We Are Here: LGBTQ+ Adult Population in United States Reaches At Least 20 Million
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I’m a Queer Youth in Recovery from an Eating Disorder
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Healing Spirits: Stories of growing up LGBTQ2S+ from three Native drag queens
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Taking Action for Trans Rights: Our Favorite Tools, Resources, and Data
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Can Little Actions Bring Big Joy? Researchers Find ‘Micro-Acts’ Can Boost Well-Being
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LGBTQ Identity Document Laws and Policies
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Attacks on Gender-Affirming Care by State: Map
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Do Ask, Do Tell: A Toolkit for Collecting Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Clinical Settings
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Healthcare Equality Index 2022
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Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace: A Toolkit for Employers
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Supporting the Transgender People in Your Life: A Guide to Being a Good Ally
Tool
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Snapshot: LGBTQ Equality by State
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Employing Transgender Workers: Laws, Policies, and Issues
Tool - Toolkit/toolbox
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American Values Atlas
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LGBT Data and Demographics
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Imagine Fox Cities: Well-Being Data Tool
Tool - Data/mapping Tool
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Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures
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Queering the Map
Queering the Map
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LGBTQ+ Health Equity Library
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Published on 03/01/2022
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Public Health and Equity Resource Navigator
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