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LGBTQ+ organizations have been sounding the alarm for a year about the ways in which queer Americans are being hard-hit by the virus, but until now, federal reports have given little weight to those fears.https://bit.ly/3aTxbQc
"This report affirms what LGBTQ advocates and organizations have known all along: that our community is at greater risk and disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 health crisis," Alphonso David, president of @HRC, said in a statement to the media.https://bit.ly/3aTxbQc
An estimated 65% of queer Americans have preexisting health conditions like cancer, asthma, heart disease, kidney disease, HIV and diabetes. Those challenges often stem from the stress of discrimination, joblessness, lack of competent medical care and inadequate access to food.
According to @HRC, LGBTQ+ people are not just contending with health challenges.
— More than 40% work in service jobs where they face exposure to COVID-19, compared with 22% of their straight cisgender peers.https://bit.ly/3aTxbQc
Over the past year, LGBTQ+ organizations have done research when the federal government has not, giving them insight into the challenges they might face in getting LGBTQ+ people vaccinated.https://bit.ly/3aTxbQc
.@OutBoulder reported that it had found that LGBTQ+ people were nearly twice as likely to be hesitant about getting a vaccine as the general population.
Advocates say health disparities and distrust all come from one place: discrimination queer people have faced in health care.
The CDC report comes as President Joe Biden makes the case for his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan. LGBTQ+ advocates want the president to target part of that money to address what they say has been an invisible crisis decimating queer communities.https://bit.ly/3aTxbQc
"It's a humanitarian crisis that queer and trans people are denied basic information about our bodies," said @jessicahalem.
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The report does not include information on transgender people because the survey turned up too small a sample size of respondents, the CDC noted. Intersex people are also not represented in the dataset.