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Transgender and gender diverse individuals experience multiple disparities in health outcomes and access to care. Transfolk, especially transwomen of color, experience higher rates of poverty, homelessness, and unemployment than cisgender people. In accessing health care, they are more likely to be uninsured or underinsured and have difficulty finding competent, affordable, trans-affirming medical and mental health services. How do we improve systems impacting the health of transfolk? Sally is researching the experiences of both trans individuals and health care providers, as well as looking at how transphobia renders transfolk invisible and allows their needs to go unaddressed. Working from an intersectional framework, they see addressing the needs of transfolk as a way to address equity for other marginalized groups as well.
MORE ABOUT SALLY
Sally is a queer, genderqueer social worker interested in mixed-methods research on issues impacting sexual and gender minorities. While appreciating working directly with individuals, Sally is most interested in effecting change at a systems level by targeting policies and beliefs that marginalize groups based on race, class, gender, and sexuality.
DISSERTATION GRANT AWARDEE — FALL 2023
Health Care Experiences of Trans Students Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities
This phenomenological study examines the experiences trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming students attending HBCUs have with accessing and utilizing on-campus physical and mental health services. The goal is to understand how HBCU health centers are providing care and what they could do to improve the provision of care, with a long-term focus on improving the health of trans people of color.
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