Correcting health-care providers who assume he’s heterosexual gets tiring for Jeremy Long, who wants his queer identity to be acknowledged and counted...
Correcting health-care providers who assume he’s heterosexual gets tiring for Jeremy Long, who wants his queer identity to be acknowledged and counted in electronic health records.
Advocates are pushing for the inclusion of gender, sex and sexual orientation information in electronic health records through a co-ordinated and standardized approach across the country. Trans people may also not be screened for breast, cervical or prostate cancer if their electronic health records are not updated, he noted.
In an emailed response, Health Canada said collecting standardized data on gender, sex and sexual orientation is a critical step to understanding health-care inequities and discrimination.
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