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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.