*Has your experience of health or wellness care been less than desirable?
 
*Do your providers use the correct name and pronoun throughout your healthcare experience (waiting room, exam room, etc)?

*Have your providers outright refused you due treatment?

*Have they given you well-intentioned under-treatment (that is... they'd love to help you and are receptive, but they don't have enough knowledge to properly do so)?

....or Are you one of the lucky people among us who has a knowledgeable culturally-competent provider who consistently provides quality treatment? 

If your answer to any of these questions is yes, we'd love to know about it. We would love to hear about the good, the bad, and the ugly of your health care and wellness experiences. We'll put snippets of these (without personal identifiers) on the site, so we can have tangible stories about why queer and trans healthcare education is necessary. To have your story heard, please send an Email with the following information and anything else to healthcollective AT gmail.com :

The basics of your story whatever they might be.

Was your experience in a mainstream health setting or a queer and/or trans-focused setting?

Other demographic/identity situations (if relevant to your story) [including but in no way limited to: age, racial or ethnic identification, polyamorous or monogamous relationship status, HIV+ status, (dis)ability level, class, insurance/medicare status, etc.]

Do you feel your identity and lived experience were respected by your provider?

In your opinion, what should a provider do to make sure patients receive optimum health and wellness care and are treated with dignity and respect?

Again, please email us with this information. It will help others know they are not alone, and it will help QPHC shape how best to educate providers via our pamphlets in the future. You'll be helping us to change the state of queer and trans health and wellness care.