7 Major Health Disparities Affecting the LGBTQ+ Community

Health ^ | August 29, 2024 (update) | Claire Gillespie

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People in the LGBTQ+ community face health disparities due to prejudice, lack of access to care, and other factors. We all rely on healthcare services at various points in our lives. However, not everyone has the same access to medical advice and treatment. As a result, specific populations suffer poorer health outcomes than others.

Health disparities are how disease, injury, and violence affect marginalized groups of people, like those in the LGBTQ+ community, differently than others. Health disparities typically result from a lack of access to adequate healthcare.

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Here we go again.

An article of unwitting falsehoods, supported by false reasons.

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Easy hypothetical experiment.

Deny “access to medical care” or “discrimination” to the normals in the general population and see if they approach ANY of the health problems of the sodomites.

In other words, ask yourself if normals are going to contract AIDS in any significant numbers.

[GOPJ]

About 50 times MORE Government money is spent on EACH LGBTQ+ person than on each cancer patient.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Yes, it is all our fault that homosexuals have drug and suicide problems.

[Mr. K]

Maybe they shouldn’t be putting things in through the out door?

[Sarcazmo]

Thir, have a little compassion!

Obviously you have never had to have a live gerbil extracted from your ass.

That is a medical emergency thir!

[butlerweave]

They’re just people and not special people so they get the same as everyone else

[jerod]

Using only LGBTQ+ is now offensive to 2S people... Meaning of course, 2 Spirit people... Get your woke acronyms correct before you start reporting on these freaks of nature.

2SLGBTQ+ - LGBTQ+

[Sarcazmo]

Dang, you beat me to it!

I spent too much time trying to figure out how to type a lisp.

[Apparatchik]

Every single one of these elevated health risks are directly the result of behavior. Homosexuals essentially suffer from a form of mental illness and are much, more prone to substance abuse, overeating and risk-taking. Lesbians are overwhelmingly more obese than straight women and therefore suffer higher rates of breast and cervical cancer as a result.

Yet this stupid article tries to portray them as victims of prejudice. Spare me.

[Skooz]

Unhealthy lifestyle choices have predictable negative health consequences and it’s our fault.

Got it.

[Levy78]

Turns out smoking meth and taking it up the bung from dozens of strangers ain’t so healthy.

[deport]

Maybe they shouldn’t be putting things in through the out door?

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Sometimes things need to be experienced to learn.
jmo. lol.....

[Dr. Sivana]

Good find.

This line struck me:

Research has found that bisexual and lesbian women were more likely to be overweight or obese than women who identify as heterosexual.

Notice that the perverted women are simply identified as "bisexual" and "lesbian", as a given part of their physical identity like having curly hair or being very tall, but regular women only "identify as heterosexual", meaning that their status as such is called into question, and they might be covering up innate bisexuality or lesbianism.

Another telling line is this, "Queer and [transgender people] tend to be more prone to anxiety, depression, suicidality, eating disorders, and substance dependence, which are all the effects of systemic oppression," Kristen Martinez, an LGBTQ+ affirmative counselor at Pacific NorthWell in Seattle, Wash., told Health.

I would like to prefer Martinez' statement with the disclaimer, "Without evidence, Kristen Martinez stated," as those disorders show up in all different environments, including "accepting" ones like San Francisco and Provincetown, MA. It is unscientific to refuse to consider that the disorders are linked to the embrace of a perverted lifestyle and that one might directly contribute to the other.

[hoosierham]

As opposed to dealing with the aftermath of broken light bulbs?
There is a particular style bulb due to remblance of something else...
the EMT community has many anecdotes but is restricted by patient privacy rules from honest open discussion.

The LBGQxyz community major problem is denial of reality.

[philman_36]

However, not everyone has the same access to medical advice and treatment.

Sure they do. Nobody is locking the doors to doctor's offices or clinics
nor are health care workers being silenced.

The willingness to PAY for that advice and treatment comes into play.
Free is the best four letter word that begins with "f".

[AppyPappy]

It appears good health is homophobic

[Antoninus]

#1. They are told that their horribly destructive mental health issue is “perfectly normal.”

End of story.

[MortMan]

The falsehoods are NOT “unwilling”.

I saw no mention of risky behaviors being part of the reason for disparities.

[wildcard_redneck]

1. Insanity
2. Panty crickets
3. AIDS
4. Monkey pox
5. Prolapsed anus
6. Genital warts
7. Syphilis