LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations are calling for governments to include more diverse gender and sexual identities in their electronic health record systems.
The organizations say that as understandings of gender and sexuality have become more advanced, health record systems haven’t kept up.
They are asking for Health Canada to take the lead on creating more data fields to capture the spectrum of gender and sexual identities, which they say would create better health outcomes for gender-diverse people.
It comes after a Tuesday report from the Vancouver advocacy organization Community-Based Research Centre called Seeing Us As We Are.
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