Grace Lee
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201 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2018
last heard Sep 2019
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Um specifically um providing services to trans people.
So those often are very focused on on elements especially around transition.
But there's no reason why they can't be providing other sort of more general services as well.
So creating those sort of safe environments that are non threatening, um where, you know, trans or non binary people can can rock up basically, see a a GP or another
specialist um where they would feel that they've already been educated in trans health and how to understand and empathize with uh with with a trans client and um and yeah basically make them feel as as safe as we can.
And many of those sorts of you know facilities I think the key thing to that as well is is that it's they engage the community as a whole in terms of how they design their their services.
delivery.
So it's a very important element of that I think.
Um because if you don't you just cre you just you just wipe people like me out, right?
We don't exist anymore.
If you if you talk, you know, very specifically in some of these sort of and I can understand 'cause I've kind of a scientific sort of background as well and I can understand how some of the language has sort of developed um within medicine and many other areas as well.
Um but we have to find ways of not
excluding people from, you know, the discussion um and even when you're actually talking to a client or a patient, it's very it can be very easy actually to in fact deny their existence through the terminology that you might use or failure actually to appreciate and acknowledge who they are, how they perceive their identity and how they've perhaps already asked you.
to acknowledge and recognise that.
better and and more inclusive?
Um well I think probably in some of the things we're talking about today, I mean, first of all, obviously use language that your client or patient wants you to use in terms of whether it's their pronouns or their their their gender descriptions and their names.
Um and I think probably when we get to more medical terminology again is to perhaps I don't know, there are different ways and I think we have to this is still a discussion to be had, but you know, rather than
using gendered terms is to use more anatomical terms, for example.
So do we refer to the organs that people possess rather than um, you know, where we may perceive that to be a part of a a a sex or gender description.
Okay, well I guess a really important thing to do obviously is to sort of seek some really good supportive professional advice.
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