Pause for Perspective Hosts ‘Queering Healthcare’ Discussion, Spotlighting Challenges Faced by Queer and Transpersons
Hyderabad: As part of the pride month celebrations, Pause for Perspective, a mental health practitioners’ collective, held a discussion on ‘Queering Healthcare’. The participants including queer healthcare professionals, activists, and people with shared experiences, explored varied challenges faced by queer and transpersons while accessing gender affirmative medical or surgical care or mental healthcare. The session explored the devaluation of queer bodies in healthcare - being asked to strip to check for genital functionality and congruence to their identity, surgeries violating babies at birth, and inaccessibility of safe hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming care. “People who want to transition are perceived as mentally ill. Doctors, surgeons and healthcare practitioners often claim to be "queer and trans affirmative" but turn out to be queerphobic and transphobic instead.
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