The Doctor Will See You Now.

For some of us we dread those words for other they have no problems. I haven’t had a problem with medical treatment, I have an appointment with a new doctor at the end of the month but I not worried.

Rajean Moone: Protecting the Aging LGBTQ Population
Rajean Moone says the health care community needs to be better equipped to offer sensitive physical and mental health services to older LGBTQ people
Next Avenue
By Julie Pfitzinger
December 6, 2022


ERajean Moone, PhD, is cautiously optimistic about the survey results of the Minnesota 2022 LGBTQ Aging Needs Assessment Report, but believes there is still ground to be gained when it comes to how confident members of the LGBTQ population feel about receiving health services that are sensitive and appropriate.

Moone, 44, a 2022 Next Avenue Influencer in Aging, was the principal investigator on the 2022 report, and also part of the research team that conducted a similar survey in 2012: a year when the social and political climate in Minnesota for LGBTQ people was being challenged.

"At that time, there was a constitutional amendment on the ballot in Minnesota attempting to define marriage as being between one man and one woman," Moone said. "There was a heightened sense of fear." (The amendment was defeated.)

In that 2012 survey, only 18% of respondents indicated they "felt confident they would receive sensitive service if their LGBTQ status was known."

Fast forward to the 2022 study (which took place from March-June 2021 and surveyed close to 500 participants either online or via paper surveys) and 85% claimed they felt confident their care would be handled in a sensitive manner.

As I get older I am see more new doctors and probably everyone of them had no idea that I was trans when I went to them for the first time.

We are facing Long Term Care or “At Home” care and for all of us it will be a new experience, what will happen when we invite care givers in to our home? What will happen when we enter a LTC facility, how will we be treated not only by the staff but the other residents?

For the LGBTQ population, solo aging is a particularly compelling issue.

"For many, throughout their lives, they hid their sexual orientation or gender identity. Many have never had a family, and never had any children," Moone said. "Others have been caregivers for aging parents, which also has exacerbated their sense of social isolation."

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For LGBTQ nursing home residents, the availability of this type of staff training is essential.

"Many times, elders go back into the closet if they go into residences," said Moone. "Or if they remain in their homes, but have home health care workers visiting regularly, partners will take down photos or hide traces of their life together, and say they are roommates."

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Healthcare are now getting training but what about future doctors especially in states that have anti-trans healthcare laws? Indirectly we see that they are still training medical student.

Rep. Slaton Finds Texas Medical Schools Teach Child Gender Modification to Students
Syllabuses for the listed courses confirm the allegations in Slaton's press release. One syllabus includes understanding "puberty suppression, gender-affirming hormone therapy, surgical options, and mental health support."
The Texan
By Hudson Callender
August 25, 2022


Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Royse City) explained in a press release on August 24 that public medical schools in Texas are teaching child gender modification to students. 

In the press release, he wrote, “Repeatedly, the people of Texas have been told ‘this kind of thing  isn’t going on in Texas.’ And yet, the exact opposite is true.”

“Not only are young children being subjected to barbaric gender-modification practices like surgeries and puberty-blocking drugs on a daily basis, but these practices are being taught to the next generation of doctors in some of our public medical schools,” Slaton continued.

He cites multiple Texas medical school courses that teach child gender modification, including the University of North Texas’ “Pharmacy 7205.” The class description reads, “This course will provide students with the opportunity to learn advanced skills in the provision of pharmaceutical care to the LGBT persons in a variety of practice settings.”

He also cited a University of Texas (UT) Southwestern class titled, “Adolescent and Young Adult Transgender Care.” 

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Slaton concluded his press release with a call for action, saying, “Additional investigation into these medical schools should be done so that the people of Texas can have an even clearer idea of what their tax dollars are supporting.”

So for now healthcare providers are getting trained with healthcare for us.