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Affirming LGBTQ Healthcare in 2024 – Breaking Barriers

Explore the importance of affirming LGBTQ+ healthcare in 2025, advocating for inclusive care, understanding unique health needs, and promoting equal access.
Yashika Sruthi
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Yashika Sruthi
Affirming LGBTQ Healthcare in 2024 – Breaking Barriers

Introduction

I will not permit considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, political affiliation, race, sexual orientation, social standing, or any other factor to intervene between my duty and my patient,” this is part of what we call now ‘The Physician’s Oath’.

In practice, however, there is discrimination, but it’s still a work in progress. Don't get us wrong, to say we’ve come a long way in inclusivity would be an understatement in 2025. It’s partly thanks to the rising attention on these issues that marginalized communities like the LGBTQ+ have become more open and aware of the care they need in a society that wasn’t really built for them.

We are here to celebrate these small but sure changes that have revolutionized the LGBTQ+ healthcare system and figure out how to navigate the minefields along the way.