WEEK 9 2SLGBTQIA & Health

Question 1

What is Sexual Orientation?

Answer 1

• A person’s sexual and emotinal attraction to another person and their behaviour and/or social affiliation that may result from this attraction
• Orientation is not considerded a choice, that’s why we don’t use the word preference

Question 2

What is Gender Identity?

Answer 2

• A complex development of one’s sense of self as a gendered person
• Not the same as physiological sex
• Physical bodies do not alwyas fit into two categories of male and female

Question 3

What is Heteronotmativity?

Answer 3

• Society telling us that hetero is normal
• ex. assuming female is in a relationship with a male

Question 4

What is Cissexism?

Answer 4

• The privileges that cis gender and bodies have
• Ex. asking for gender of only male and female on health forms

Question 5

What is the Minority Stress Model?

Answer 5

• Minority stress is the relationship between minority and dominat values
• Minorities face stress is a result of stigma and descrimination
• Not by identity by a gender identity
• Clash between minority and dominant values

Question 6

Minority Stress Model can lead to:

Answer 6

1. Minority stress leads to increased exposure to distal stressors (observable)
2. Minority status leads to increased exposure to proximal stressors (anticipation that a stressor will occur), due to distal stressors
3. Minority individuals suffer from adverse health outcomes, which are casued by exposure ot proximal and distal stressors

Question 7

SDoH: Income

Answer 7

• Barriers to education and secure employment
• Rates of unemployment/underemployment is high in trans populations
• Myth of gay affluence = poverty issues are invisible

Question 8

SDoH Education

Answer 8

• Face discrimination/harrassment in schools, risk of high school completion
• Needs social and familial supports to have a positive education outcome
• Ex. Gay straight alliance
• Creation of an inclusive school crriculum
• Having a compehensive sexual health education contributes to positive health outcomes

Question 9

SDoH Social Supports

Answer 9

• Sources and availability differs between locations
• Supportive families/communities build resilience

Question 10

SDoH Employment

Answer 10

• May face workplace harassment or discrimination
• Inclusice workplace culture/policies foster safety and belonging
• Trans and non-binary face lack of job security

Question 11

What are Health Promoting Community Strengths?

Answer 11

• Safety, acceptance, and support
• Interconnectedness and resource sharing
• Advocacy, collective action, and community potential
• Needs for 2SLGBTQIA+ people as well as people of colour, to gather and build community

Question 12

How can Nurses provide safe and inclusive care for 2SLGBTQIA+?

Answer 12

• Reflect: on own values, beleifs, practices
• Use inclusive language
• Education material: images of same sex couples, gender diverse, more than just words and documents
• Confidentiality: be transparent
• Challenge yourself, attitudes, actions of others