For the second time this week, a nurse has asked me whether the term LGBTQ+ should be replaced by the phrase “sexual and gender minorities” in nursing texts.
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In both instances, it was a heterosexual, cisgender nurse leader asking me.
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Part of why this question keeps coming up is because NIH uses the term “sexual and gender minorities.”
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However, people who are *part* of the community generally use the terms “LGBTQ+” or “LGBTQIA+.”
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The “A” stands for “asexual,” not “ally,” BTW.
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The term “sexual and gender minorities” others people who are LGBTQ+, defining us solely by our relation to (or deviation from) those in the majority.
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Nurses and other health professionals:
Please don’t try to rebrand LGBTQ+ people as “sexual and gender minorities.” Since gender and sexual orientation are both spectrums, there are WAY more of us than you think.
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Thanks! ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
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I never thought much about breast cancer when I was younger.
My mom died of ovarian cancer when she was 52.
My grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer but she was old and had Alzheimer’s. I wasn’t worried.
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But then in 2010, my first cousin once removed - also a college professor, coincidentally - died of metastatic breast cancer. Melanie was 44 years old. I was 38 at the time.
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Early that year, I’d had a minor scare: a mammogram and ultrasound of a teeny tiny but palpable lump had been flagged as concerning. I had a stereotactic biopsy. All good.
Months later, another lump, another round of tests. All good.
Emerson has done more that 20K tests and has had only 18 positives. In a large, densely-populated city. With high-rise dorms. emerson.edu/one-emerson/da…
If @UVA tested every student taking classes on Grounds, every week, I suspect risk behaviors would decrease.
The wastewater testing and random testing is great, but I suspect mandatory weekly testing would make individual students feel a greater sense of urgency to avoid behaviors that could expose them to COVID-19.
If you’re planning to vote for Trump because you like his position on [guns, taxes, abortion, whatever], please understand that your vote will indicate you also like his position on white supremacy.
A white supremacist you like better than Biden is still a white supremacist.
Imagine supporting a convicted pedophile for your local school board because you like their vision for education reform.
Imagine urging a local restaurant to hire a head chef who has said repeatedly that they like pissing in customers’ food — all because you like their plans for lowering prices.
What if promotion & tenure committees nationwide agreed to exclude ALL accomplishments from March to December 2019 when reviewing dossiers/packets?
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Instead, candidates‘ would submit a one-page statement about what they did during Mar-Dec 2019 to take care of themselves, their families, and their communities during the pandemic.
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Rather than evaluating “productivity” for that time period, P&T committees would be simply acknowledging - without judgment - that whatever each candidate did during that time period was exactly what they needed to be doing.
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