LGBTQ平等| Boston Children's Hospital

在波士欧宝彩票平台顿儿童医院，我们致力于向我们的女同性恋，同性恋，双性恋，跨性别和奇怪（LGBTQ）患者和家庭提供全面和肯定的待遇。我们通过了解和解决他们的护理中的差距来提高我们的LGBTQ患者和家庭的健康，同时创造了一个受欢迎的医院环境，包括整个LGBTQ社区。

We are proud to have been awarded the医疗保健平等指数Leadership Statusin 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. The Healthcare Equality Index reviews health care facilities’ policies and practices to ensure equal access and treatment of LGBTQ patients, visitors and employees.

At Boston Children’s, we provide LGBTQ patient- and family-centered care in four key areas:

患者不歧视: We provide medical care to all patients, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

Equal visitation: We welcome all visitors, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

Employment non-discrimination: We welcome all people to apply to our open job positions, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

在LGBTQ患者和家庭中心护理中培训：我们向我们的员工提供培训，请参阅LGBTQ患者和家庭为中心的护理。了解更多关于的信息安全区培训计划offered to our staff.

Our hospital is committed to ensuring that all LGBTQ patients, families, and staff work, visit, and receive care in an LGBTQ affirming environment. We offer single-stall bathrooms in many of our locations for the comfort of all of our visitors.

我们的员工和部门

Please feel free to search ourdirectory of health care providerswho have self-identified as LGBTQ trained, allies, and/or “out.” We keep this list continually updated.

LGBTQ trained: Staff who have completed the安全区培训计划or another LGBTQ-focused training.
Allies: Staff who have self-identified as supporting equal access and affirming treatment of LGBTQ patients, families, colleagues, and visitors.
Out：作为LGBTQ社区的成员自我确定的工作人员

波士顿儿童的若干部门专注于为我们的LGBTQ患者提供文化主管护理：

TheCenter for Gender Surgery在波士顿儿童医院，为符合条件的青少年和年轻成年人提供性别肯定的手术服务，并准备在旅程中迈出这一步骤。它是美国的第一中心。

TheGender Management Service (GeMS)致力于为性别膨胀和变性人及其家人提供最高级别的个性化，安全和肯定的护理。创立于2007年，宝石是美国的第一个主要计划，以重点关注治疗性别膨胀和变性青少年。从那时起，我们已经将我们的计划扩展到欢迎3至25岁的患者。

The青少年/年轻成人医学分工provides primary and specialty care services to patients ages 10 to 23. The division founded the青少年健康的波士顿领导教育（Leah）计划,其目的是为了提高他alth of adolescents in the United States through education, research, and program development. Its goal is to train the next generation of health care leaders in adolescent health.

The行为健康，内分泌，泌尿外科（BE-U）program is dedicated to providing care and support to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with differences or disorders of sexual development. Our program includes specialists with expertise in treating conditions that cause ambiguous genitalia (a birth defect of the sex organs).

TheBoston HIV青少年提供者和同行教育网络的服务（碰巧）为青年12至24岁提供服务，他是艾滋病毒阳性或疾病风险和其他性传播疾病的风险。发生的优惠免费艾滋病咨询和测试对于年轻人13岁及以上的年轻成年人，对13至24岁的年轻成年人的自由性传播感染和病毒肝炎检测。

Engagement in LGBTQ research

Many Boston Children’s clinical staff and researchers are studying and improving the health of LGBTQ children and adolescents through community-based outreach, national advocacy efforts, and multi-center national studies. They include:

S. Bryn Austin，SCD

青少年/年轻成人医学分工, whose primary research is in the behavioral sciences and social epidemiology, addressing social and physical environmental influences on physical activity, nutritional patterns, and eating disorders risk in school and community settings. Her research interests also include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adolescent health, in which she is examining sexual orientation group disparities in health in adolescence and identifying determinants with the goal of eliminating these disparities.

Elizabeth Boskey, PhD, LICSW

Researcher and social worker in the Center for Gender Surgery, whose research interests include ethical issues in gender-affirming care, expectations and outcomes for gender affirming surgeries, and how and whether providers are prepared to work with gender minority patients.

布列塔尼M. Charlton，MSC，SCD

青少年/年轻成人医学分工, whose research interests include contraceptives, HPV/cervical cancer, and LGBT health disparities. See her video abstract on sexual orientation differences in teen pregnancy and contraception use here.

Yee-Ming Chan, MD, PhD

生殖内分泌学计划主任，学习延迟青春期，性行为障碍，以及使用临床研究和人类遗传方法的转型青年。

Allegra R. Gordon，MPH，SCD

Postdoctoral research fellow in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, who studies the mental and physical health impacts of discrimination and the effects of gender norms on the health of young people. She has worked in the field of LGBT health for the past 14 years, first as a sexuality educator and HIV counselor and then in survey research and program evaluation.

Frances Grimstad，MD，MS

小儿科和青少年妇科的划分，涉及临床和研究围绕跨性别和缺口生殖健康的研究。自她的青春期以来，她一直参与跨境健康倡导，当时她决定追求这些社区面临的护理差距。她的兴趣中心周围优化两个人口的生殖健康结果，包括激素和月经管理，外科护理和计划生育。

Carly Guss, MD

青少年/年轻成人医学院医学研究员研究跨性别和性别不合适青少年的初级保健和性别认同和身体形象的关系。她对青少年和年轻成年人进行了避孕教育和规定的研究。

Sari L. Reisner, ScD

Associate scientific researcher in the Division of General Pediatrics, who researches health disparities and inequities in LGBT populations, the epidemiology of infectious diseases in marginalized, underserved populations and mental health and substance use/abuse risks

Norman Spack, MD

波士顿儿童的性别管理服务（Gems）计划的联合主任（带有泌尿科医师的David A. Diamond，MD）是关于跨性别健康和倡导医疗和反歧视法律的常见演讲者。他已经治疗了250多名变性成年人和250名青少年。他是团队的一部分，它写了关于如何治疗性别身份障碍的突破性指导方针。

艾米C. Tishelman，PHD

临床研究和高级职员心理学家主任，在性别管理服务（GEMS）中，与临床医生和研究人员合作，设计了对DSD和变性医疗保健问题的研究，以及在研究中导致培训人员和研究员。She was one of the key people at Boston Children’s to secure a National Institutes of Health (NIH) award for a five-year, four-site study designed to provide evidence-based information on the safety and physiological and psychosocial impact of hormone blockers and cross-sex hormones in the transgender population.

Sabra L. Katz-Wise，PHD

Research scientist in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, who investigates sexual orientation and gender identity development, sexual fluidity and health disparities related to sexual orientation and gender identity in adolescents and young adults. She is working on a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study to examine how the family environment affects the health and well-being of transgender adolescents.

The性取向和性别认同和表达（Sogie）工作组, based at Boston Children’s and theHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, brings together experts from diverse disciplines whose work focuses on the intersections of sexual orientation, gender, and health. Biweekly meetings provide a space for members to discuss, critique, and develop research, advocacy, and public health projects focused on promoting health equity among gender and sexual minority groups.

Resources

We aim to connect our patients and families to health education and resources to help ensure continuity of care. We recommend the following resources:

波士顿儿童’s Hospital’s Neighborhood Partnership Program (BCHNP), part of ourDepartment of Psychiatry是一个社区心理健康计划，将社会工作者，心理学家和精神科医生在整个波士顿提供给儿童和青少年的行为保健服务。该计划为学生，家庭和员工提供教育和支持，如抑郁和自杀，欺凌和性行为。

TheCenter for Young Women’s Health, in collaboration with theDivision of Adolescent Medicineand the妇科划分, is an educational center that provides teen girls and young women with carefully researched health information, health education programs, and conferences. The website offers timely articles, blogs, and interactive features.

TheCenter for Young Men’s Health为十几岁的男孩和年轻人提供仔细研究健康信息，以帮助他们改善对正常健康和发展的理解，以及特定的疾病和条件。目标是赋予青少年男孩和年轻人在自己的医疗保健中发挥积极作用。

TheDigital Wellness Labis dedicated to understanding and responding to the effects of media on the physical, mental, and social health of children through research, production, and education. The lab communicates about such topics as youth and LGBTQ representation on television and how media can influence children as they develop their own sense of sexual identity and understanding of cultural norms when it comes to sexual behaviors.

LGBTQ & Friends

女同性恋，同性恋，双性恋，转型和酷儿（LGBTQ）和朋友集团于2008年12月开始作为LGBTQ员工，患者，家庭和朋友的支持小组和资源。

At Boston Children's Hospital, we embrace our diversity not only to deliver the best care, but also to make Children's a better place to work. Children's supports our patients, families, and staff within the LGBTQ community.

LGBTQ & Friends is representative of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer staff and employees at Boston Children's Hospital — and for their friends and supporters. Current co-chairs are Todd Katzman and Allison Scobie-Carroll.

LGBTQ和朋友在每个月的第三个星期二在下午12点举行。会议在外科图书馆/ Hunnewell 353举行，位于儿童主校园。

For more information about the LGBTQ & Friends, please email托德·卡兹曼.

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