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Track: Impacted Communities & Community Leadership
Other potentially relevant tracks: Movement Building and Organizational Development, Legislative & Legal Advocacy
Title (15 words or less): HIV and LGBTQ+ Health: Intersectional, Interrelated, & Under Attack
Description (200 word limit): Join this workshop to discuss why LGBTQ+ health care access is essential to HIV advocacy! Learn about recent attempts to restrict access to LGBTQ+ health care (especially gender affirming care) and why the fight to protect LGBTQ+ health is necessary to protect access to HIV treatment and prevention and to ensure quality of life for people living with HIV. This workshop is designed to be accessible to those who are unfamiliar with this political landscape and will include opportunities for attendees to practice for Hill Day in a supportive environment.
Learning Objectives:Attendees will be able to identify various ways the federal government is undercutting access to robust LGBTQ+ health care.Attendees will be able to articulate the connection between LGBTQ+ health care, specifically gender affirming care, and HIV advocacy.Attendees will practice how to talk with legislative staff about these issues and relevant policy asks.Attendees will consider how intersectional advocacy can happen in their home states.
How does your workshop encourage active participation?: The workshop will include protected time where attendees will partner with someone they don’t know and practice meeting with legislative staff to talk about these issues. Attendees will also be invited to share how intersectional advocacy is or could be more present in their home states/communities.
MIPA (100 word limit): This workshop includes presenters who live with HIV and who are of trans experience.
How does this workshop link to our policy asks/prepare folks for our advocacy day?: This workshop will articulate the link between LGBTQ+ health care asks and HIV advocacy. We will highlight relevant asks that are included in the policy brief and practice using the policy brief in conversations with legislative offices.
