Koleinu and the Trans Empowerment Coalition Team Up
Last Friday, after services, the Koleinu Healthcare/Eldercare Action Team and the Trans Empowerment Coalition hosted a shmooze with the Lesbian Cancer Initiative of the LGBT Community Center.
The shmooze focused on cancer screening, cancer risk, and discrimination in LBT communities. This is part of an ongoing conversation, both within our community and with medical and service providers, to get equitable care for LGBT people. It is so vital that we as a community discuss our fears and frustrations as LGBT people and make our voices heard. This is how we will make a change.
The Koleinu Healthcare/Eldercare Action Team is organizing to change the attitudes of the medical and service providers to improve medical care for our community during gender transitions, when we’re entering long-term care, and throughout our life times.
The only way we can effectively change the attitudes of the professions is to push the issues forward and we need your help. Help strengthen our community and the care we receive by getting involved in Koleinu. Our next meeting is on Monday, March 7th from 7-8:30. I hope to see you there.
