Action Steps YOU Can Take to Improve Trans Folks’ Access to Healthcare

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Action Steps YOU Can Take to Improve Trans Folks' Access to Healthcare
Feministing
By Lori |
17 August, 2010


http://feministing.com/2010/08/17/action-steps-you-can-take-to-improve-trans-folks-access-to-healthcare/


We've written a lot about the importance of ensuring access to health services for trans folk, and of the discrimination they often face when trying to access said services. And a few weeks ago, a new study by youth advocate Neha Sood was released on the health hurdles transgender women and men, and gender non-conforming people, face in Asia.

Given the information presented in that report, it seems as good a time as any to ask ourselves, as feminists, as trans and cis gender people, as gender non-conforming people, as SRRH advocates, and as allies in a movement for better access to health and rights for all, what can I do about this systematic denial of healthcare to an entire community of people? How can I help ensure access to health services for transgender men and women, in Asia and around the world?