Helping transgender people see themselves in the health-care system – Folio
How medical students are learning to provide safer, more inclusive care for all.
“The most important way of reducing discrimination is to see yourself in your health-care system.”
That’s how LGBTQ health activist Marni Panas summed up what transgender visibility means to her in episode 47 of The Re:Pro Health Podcast, a show about sexual and reproductive health produced by medical students at the University of Alberta.
Panas, 50, said she knew from the age of six or seven that her experience wasn’t “what was expected” for boys and young men, but it took many years to develop the language to articulate how she felt and find a “concentric circle” of supportive people who could help her live as her true self.
