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When medical specialists lack cultural competency

My doctor referred me to an 'LGBT specialist' who had never heard of two-spirit people and suggested I might just be transgender.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healthcare systems fail when they reduce diverse cultural identities to the limited categories of Western medical models.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Two-spirit and indigenous gender traditions?”

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