Interprofessional Grand Rounds Webinar - Creating a Trans Affirming Environment: Use of Gender Appropriate Language at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Interprofessional Grand Rounds Webinar - Creating a Trans Affirming Environment: Use of Gender Appropriate Language at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, 8/27/2021 8:00:00 AM - 8/27/2024 9:00:00 AM, According to the 2015 US Transgender Survey, out of 28,000 transgender and gender diverse individuals, 33% reported having at least one negative experience with a medical provider related to being transgender. 23% of respondents reported not seeing a doctor when they needed to because of fear of being mistreated as a transgender person. This presentation will be an overview of the proper tools and resources to be able to appropriately provide care for transgender and gender diverse individuals and to ensure everyone feels comfortable accessing healthcare.

Speaker
Emmett J. LeBlanc (He/Him/His)
Program Manager, Transgender Health Clinic, Department of Endocrinology, DHMC

Learning Outcome(s)
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to discuss how the use of appropriate pronouns can enhance the overall experience of transgender and gender diverse individuals seeking care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for Interprofessional Grand Rounds – Unconscious Bias, August 28, 2020 have reported NO financial interest or relationship* with various companies. There were no individuals in a position to control the content that refused to disclose.

*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.