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GLSEN works to ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. Together we can transform our nation's schools into the safe and affirming environment all youth deserve.
NATA Now article, discussing how health care professionals, especially athletic trainers, are uniquely positioned to advocate for the rights of our transgender patients so they can receive gender-affirming care, which is medically-necessary, evidence-based care that improves the physical and mental health of transgender and gender-diverse people.
The Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) is the national LGBTQ+ benchmarking tool that evaluates healthcare facilities' policies and practices related to the equity and inclusion of their LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees. The HEI 2022 evaluates more than 2,200 healthcare facilities nationwide.
Winter 2021 Sports Medicine Legal Digest article on employment discrimination in the LGBTQ+ community.
The athletic trainer plays a vital role in reducing barriers to accessing quality health care for all patients, including transgender individuals. Read about key points ATs should know re: transgender health care, and resources to improve their knowledge, awareness and patient care for the population.
This is an article on NATA Now. Several states have initiated and/or passed legislation that affects health care for transgender youth in sport. Given that transgender individuals suffer behavioral health issues at a higher rate than their cisgender peers, it is imperative that ATs are cognizant of how these laws affect the well-being of their transgender patient population.
Athletic training is a service occupation and those who enter into it should have the desire to serve others. A fundamental responsibility and purpose of any human service occupation is to meet the needs of all people and improve individuals’ quality of life. Inherent in these purposes is the attention and sensitivity to affirming people’s cultural diversity, including sexual orientation and gender identity. Regardless of your setting or who you work with, the culture of sexual orientation and gender identity may be part of the mix
ATs can provide a safe space for patients who find themselves being targeted and/or bullied by others.
This NATA Now article explores the often hostile athletic environment toward LGBTQ+ people.
NATA Now article that outlines the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network's (GLSEN) model of high school athletics policy for ATs who are looking to develop policies for their own workplace.
June 2020 NATA News article on importance of visibility, technology considerations and pronoun use to the LGBTQ+ patient population.
NATA Now article on caring for a transgender patient.
Read tthe Summer 2020 Sports Medicine Legal Digest where incoming chair of NATA's LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee Rebecca Lopez, PhD, ATC, CSCS, answers questions posed by Sports Medicine Legal Digest.
Athletic trainers may be the first point of contact on the health care team for a patient in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning community.