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Advocates View Health Care as Key to Driving LGBTQ Rights Conversation
When Allison Scott came out as a trans woman in 2013, she told not only family and friends, but also her primary care physician.
January 20, 2021
She didn’t need his help with hormone therapy. She had another doctor for that. But she wanted to share the information with her doctor of more than 10 years in case it affected other aspects of her health.
First, some background
In February 2016, the Charlotte City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in public accommodations. Before the ordinance took effect, a special session of the N.C. General Assembly was called to respond. On March 23, the legislature passed House Bill 2 and Gov. Pat McCrory signed it into law that night.
The bill stated that state law pre-empted any local anti-discrimination ordinances and, according to a New York Times article at the time, “required schools and other public facilities with single-gender washrooms to only allow people of the corresponding sex as listed on their birth certificate to use them.”
Republican lawmaker calls LGBTQ equality a ‘rebellion against God’
South Carolina State Sen. Richard Cash called LGBTQ equality a rebellion against God
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South Carolina State Sen. Richard Cash, during his anti-LGBTQ rant Photo: Screenshot
A Republican lawmaker in South Carolina engaged in a lengthy, anti-LGBTQ rant while debating anti-abortion legislation last week.
State Sen. Richard Cash blamed LGBTQ equality and the Civil Rights movement for causing a “slow, downward moral decline” in America and called same-sex marriage part of a “rebellion…against God.”
Cash’s rant came amid debate on a so-called “heartbeat bill,” which would ban abortion as soon as a fetus’ heartbeat can be detected.
North Carolina Legislative Watch
Fighting for the rights of LGBTQ North Carolinians has never been more crucial than at this time. Recently, three
municipalities have adopted non-discrimination ordinances after the sundowning occurred on HB2/HB142 that
restricted such actions. HB2/HB142 became an international embarrassment to the state’s reputation. (Photo Credit: dusica69 via Adobe Stock)
During the week of Jan. 10, three towns in Orange County passed LGBTQ-inclusive non-discrimination ordinances, the first since a state ban on such local protections expired last month.
The move by the towns of Hillsborough, Carrboro and Chapel Hill signals the willingness of progressive communities to wade back into a civil rights fight that exploded in 2016 with the North Carolina General Assembly’s passage of House Bill 2. That controversial state law excluded lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from statewide nondiscrimination protections and ignited a political fight
Advocates view health care as key to driving LGBTQ rights
By Aneri Pattani
Kaiser Health News/TNS
When Allison Scott came out as a trans woman in 2013, she told not only family and friends, but also her primary care physician.
She didn’t need his help with hormone therapy. She had another doctor for that. But she wanted to share the information with her doctor of more than 10 years in case it affected other aspects of her health.
She was shocked when he told her he would no longer treat her.
“It was humiliating,” said Scott, now director of policy and programs for the Campaign for Southern Equality, an LGBTQ advocacy organization based in North Carolina. “It’s not because the provider doesn’t have the knowledge they need, but because the provider isn’t comfortable with who you are.”