Lawrence Badman: Impact on practice and Intersectionality · INTERSECTIONALITY: AN EXAMPLE....
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FREDA Learning Together Event 2019
Lawrence Badman: Impact on practice and Intersectionality
Contemporary issues in practice
PICTURE THE SCENE…
PICTURE THE SCENE…
Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults
LITERATURE REVIEW
LITERATURE REVIEW
THE MAIN FINDINGS
Research shows LGBT+ individuals and carers often experience discrimination and marginalisation that impacts on their ability to:
access services and receivethe most appropriate support
THE MAIN FINDINGS
1. Discrimination stops LGBT+ accessing services
2. Discrimination stops LGBT+ from receiving the most appropriate support
INTERSECTIONALITY
Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) – Feminist theory
INTERSECTIONALITY: AN EXAMPLE
INTERSECTIONALITY
Employ black men in the factory
Employ white women in the office
The factory owners are neither racist or sexist
INTERSECTIONALITY
Ethnicity Gender
Oppression
INTERSECTIONALITY
Ethnicity Gender
INTERSECTIONALITY & THE LITERATURE REVIEW
Ethnicity Disability Age
Ethnicity, disability and age are all common intersections with LGBT+
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
LGBT+ people are more likely to experience –
DepressionAnxietySelf-harmSuicide attempts (twice as likely)Drug and alcohol dependency
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
LGBT+ people are more likely to –
Live aloneHave limited contact with familyHave no childrenRely on close friends for support
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
In the NHS up to 25 per cent of patient-facing staff having heard colleagues making homophobic, biphobic or transphobic remarks.
Example of a female doctor who loudly demanded a chaperone before treating a woman who identified as lesbian.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
‘Are you a relative?’ -
Distant relatives are often given more regard than the lover or friend, who is in reality much closer to the person but has no recognised status.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Experiences of assumed heterosexuality are common and often result in people feeling forced to repeatedlycome out to health and social care staff.
Many LGBT+ people feel that health care providers make assumptions or judgements about their body, identity or relationships.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
‘My partner and I had been together for 25 years when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. When he went into hospital I kept on telling them that I was his partner, but they moved him into residential care without asking me. I phoned up to see how he was and he wasn’t there.’
RESOLVING THE ISSUES AND TAKING ACTION
Some questions to reflect on…
Does our organisation have a contemporary understanding of LGBT+ issues?
Does our organisation support LGBT people to access our service?
Does our organisation help LGBT people to receive the most appropriate support?
RESOLVING THE ISSUES AND TAKING ACTION
Commissioners to assess if their mainstream services
are accessible to and appropriate for LGBT people.
Commissioners should ensure provision of specialist services, to address specific
LGBT health care needs available in their local area.
H&SC staff to have knowledge of local LGBT
services
Forms and IT systems to avoid heteronormativity e.g. binary choice of male/female
Service Provision
RESOLVING THE ISSUES AND TAKING ACTION
Sensitively discuss a person’s needs in relation to gender
and sexual orientation, such as support provided by
friends
Ask for and use the correct name, title and pronouns for
someone who is trans
Open questions such as ‘are you in a relationship?’ (as opposed to ‘do you have a
boyfriend or husband?
Non verbal cues – rainbow pin badge, the provision of
gender neutral toilets
Communicate acceptance
SLIDE TITLE
BLOGSLIDE TITLE
‘Flying the Rainbow Flag in Social Work’ by Lawrence Badman
https://socialcare.blog.gov.uk/2019/05/23/flying-the-rainbow-flag-in-social-work/
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