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Snowdon called on LGBTI people to "engage in, yes, risky behavior" to bring an end to these problems.

"Let's engage in radically open and honest community conversation about self-care—self-care not just to avoid risk, but to experience power and joy," she said. "Let's come out to our providers, rather than avoiding them. Let's bring them The Lesbian Health Book, Men Like Us, Transgender Care and The Medical Normalization of Intersex the way women used to bring to their doctors. And let's protest incidents of substandard care. Let's respond when a medical office tells a transsexual patient, 'We don't deal with people like you,' when a fertility doctor tells a lesbian couple, 'We don't inseminate people like you,' when a nurse walks out of a hospital room where a gay man is tenderly holding his partner's hand and says, 'I can't believe I have to deal with people like you.'"