Local medical providers address health disparities among transgender patients in rural Maine
Maine Public Health and University of Maine at Augusta Social Sciences Program address barriers through Zoom panels and dialogues.
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The Maine Public Health Association and the Social Sciences Program at the University of Maine at Augusta have been addressing barriers to health care that people experience through the monthly Zoom panels, Health Equity Dialogues. February focused on challenges that transgender patients face when accessing health care, often more apparent in rural Maine such as Franklin County.
Primary concerns expressed by the Feb. 10 panelists included data collection, transphobic attitudes and the lack of trans-competent providers, doctors and medical professionals who have had training and experience working with people who identify as transgender.
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REGION The University of Maine at Augusta will host a webinar featuring a panel of experts on trans health, health equity, and healthcare inequalities in Maine. Titled Health Equity Dialogues: Healthcare & Health Equity in Transgender Communities, the event is Wednesday, Feb. 10 from 12-1:30 p.m. as a virtual webinar.
This event is open to the public, however, an RSVP is required. To register for this event and receive the Zoom link, please complete the following form: https://forms.gle/4FARXP32UtHU5JS26.
Program: The first Health Equity Dialogue in 2021 will continue its topical discussions around the concept that health equity is the justice principle that everyone should have an equal opportunity to achieve health. February’s event will provide a panel of experts on trans health, health equity, and healthcare inequalities in Maine discussing the topic of Healthcare and Health Equity in Transgender Communities in a facilitated dialogue. Panelist from MaineTrans
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The University of Maine at Augusta will host a webinar featuring a panel of experts on trans health, health equity, and healthcare inequalities in Maine, Wednesday, Feb. 10, from 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Health Equity Dialogues: will be presented as a virtual .
The first Health Equity Dialogue in 2021, Healthcare & Health Equity in Transgender Communities, will continue its topical discussions around the concept that health equity is the justice principle that everyone should have an equal opportunity to achieve health.
February’s webinar event will provide a panel of experts on trans health, health equity, and healthcare inequalities in Maine discussing the topic of Healthcare and Health Equity in Transgender Communities in a facilitated dialogue.
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Updated: 10:12 PM EST Jan 25, 2021 Terry Stackhouse Members of Maineâs transgender community are celebrating President Bidenâs executive order Monday reversing President Trumpâs ban on most transgender people from serving in the military. Danni Twomey, an Air Force veteran from Cumberland, described a mix of emotions. âI am exhausted after four years of the transgender community being the point of assault for the Trump administration pandering to the religious right. It was immoral and vindictive,â Twomey said. Advocacy groups such as Maine Transgender Network organized protests and lobbied Maineâs congressional delegation to oppose Trumpâs order to ban transgender people from military service when he made the announcement in a 2017 tweet. Twomey, assigned male at birth and originally known as Daniel Oak Twomey, served from 1975 to 1980. Twomey says she was as a sergeant working for NORAD as a weapons controller-tech doing a
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