Health and Wellbeing Inequalities for LGBTQ+ People with Laura Clarke

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

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🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Laura Clarke, who is the Stakeholder Engagement Officer for the LGBT National Partnership. Laura discusses some specific issues that affect the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people, what services are available to them, and how our public services are failing this population. She and Hannah talk about data and monitoring of LGBTQ+ people in the recent 2021 census as well as the phrasing of the questions asked about gender. Finally, Hannah and Laura discuss trans men and non binary people accessing pregnancy and birth services, and how COVID and the pandemic has affected LGBTQ+ people.

✨MORE ABOUT THE NATIONAL LGBT PARTNERSHIP✨
The National LGBT Partnership was established in early 2010, in order reduce health inequalities and challenge homophobia, biphobia and transphobia within public services. The Partnership combines the expertise of a number of key LGBT organisations across England, and works closely with many more. The Partnership is a Sector Strategic Partner of the Department of Health, Public Health England and NHS England, collaborating with a wide range of organisations as part of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance. It has experience of successfully influencing policy, practice and actions of Government, statutory bodies, and others

The partners have a long history of service delivery, working with LGBT people both locally and nationally. Services include 1-2-1 counselling, befriending, peer-support groups, helplines, community leader programmes, testing, advocacy, youth-work, HIV, housing support, drug and alcohol interventions, and much more. This enables the Partnership to act as a catalyst and connector, putting LGBT people and their issues firmly on the agenda of a wide range of decision makers.

- http://twitter.com/LGBTPartnership
- instagram](https://www.instagram.com/lgbtpartnership/

✨MORE ABOUT LAURA CLARKE✨
Laura is the Stakeholder Engagement Officer for the National LGBT Partnership. She works with the health and voluntary sector across England, bringing together services to increase the visibility of LGBT+ health inequalities and developing resources to increase awareness.

Laura has vast experience of working in the charity sector and has previously worked with LGBT+ youth, mental health, loneliness and sexual violence projects.

Laura is from Barry, South Wales (and is well used to the Gavin & Stacey references by now). She moved to Bath for her undergraduate degree and then resided for two years in Brighton, where she obtained her MA in Gender Studies. She is now lives in Bath again with her partner.

Laura can often be found laughing at stand-up comedy or crying at musical theatre. She also enjoys poetry (both reading and writing) and has a borderline obsessive love of Taylor Swift. When taking a break from work, Laura is likely moseying around European cities, looking at art and struggling to find gluten-free food.

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- https://www.instagram.com/thelauraclarke/

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0:00.0	trans people know themselves best. They know their own bodies. Yeah. They know who they are.
0:04.3	And if answering a question in a certain way is going to make you feel bad about yourself
0:09.3	or make you feel dysphoric for whatever reason, then there's also something to be said for
0:14.2	answering it in the way that you feel most comfortable.
0:20.3	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Whitten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
0:32.0	Hello, you. Welcome to Doing It. I'm your host and resident sex nerd Hannah Whitten. This week I'm joined by
0:39.8	Laura Clark, who is the stakeholder engagement officer for the National LGBT Partnership,
0:46.1	who work to reduce health inequalities and challenge homophobia, bifobia and transphobia within
0:52.7	public services. They do so much important and
0:56.7	necessary work like one-to-one counselling, peer support groups, helplines, advocacy, youth work, HIV,
1:05.2	housing support, drug and alcohol interventions and putting LGBT-key plus people and their issues on the agenda of
1:14.0	decision makers and policy makers. That's a lot of good stuff. Laura and I cover so much in this
1:23.0	episode in terms of the specific issues around the health and well-being of LGBTQ plus people, what services are available to them and how our public services are failing this population.
1:36.3	In the UK, we also recently had the 2021 census, which for the first time had voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender
1:47.1	identity. And we talk about that in terms of data and monitoring of LGBTQ plus people and the
1:54.2	phrasing of questions asked about gender. We chat about the impact that COVID and the pandemic has had on LGBTQ plus people
2:04.0	and specific issues like LBT women's health and trans men and non-binary people accessing
2:10.4	pregnancy and birth services. We get into so much and it was so interesting to hear about the state of things currently
2:19.6	and ways we can make our public services more accessible and inclusive.
2:25.4	As usual, you can find more info and links to everything we talked about in this episode
2:30.6	in the show notes over at doing itpodcast.com.com.
2:38.4	And please let us know what you think over on our Twitter or Instagram, which is at doing it a podcast. Also, Instagram is the place to be if you want to get your questions
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