CHCS June 17, 2024
Nida Joseph and Amanda Bank

Each June, Pride Month celebrates the strength and resilience of the ever-growing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) communities across the United States. It’s a joyful reminder of the immense progress that’s been made to ensure LGBTQ+ visibility and inclusion, as well as a call to action for the continued work needed to ensure the community can thrive.

LGBTQ+ people face well-documented health disparities and inequities compared to their cisgender, heterosexual peers, and are more likely to live below the poverty line and be enrolled in Medicaid. Federal agencies have begun prioritizing efforts to protect LGBTQ+ health care access and are encouraging Medicaid agencies to collect sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data....

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