LGBTO
Health Concerns
- depression
- suicide
- drugs and alcohol
- homelessness - especially from rural kids who leave
- self harm/risk taking
- masking
- need for information on relationships and sexual health
- defining gender and orientation
- reproductive health issues for lesbians
Many youth will go to the internet for information.
Barriers
- being unsure of where to go
Homophobia
- body, verbal language
- attitiude
- assumptions, ie link between identity and depression
- dismissal
- denial of service
Heterosexism
- assuming patients are heterosexual and who the people with them are
- asking about birth control
- pronouns can be tricky for transgendered
- make sure forms are non-heterosexist
Confidentiality
- youth are very concerned about confidentiality, especially if it has been broken before. very impertant to let them know info won't get passed on to parents or other health care providers
- records - let youuth know their info will not go anywhere; impt