There are three main ways that racism leads to inequities in health.
Racism can be defined as “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group.” This discrimination shows up in places like our criminal justice, education, and health care systems. However, recent research reveals that these health disparities are not due to race, but racism. Some people wrongly assume that this is due to genetic differences based on race. A 2011 study found that while there don’t appear to be racial disparities in rates of high cholesterol, white people with high cholesterol are more likely to have it well-controlled by medication. In the US, people who are identified as Black, Hispanic/Latinx/Latine, and/or American Indian/Alaskan Native have higher rates of diabetes and high blood pressure than those who identify as white. Let’s start here: health disparities are often not caused by race, but by racism.
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Part of the work here at FOLX is to ensure we are seeing people as their full selves, including the persistent racism some people face day-in-and-day out.
Unfortunately, this systemic inequality existed well before our current pandemic. Many pre-existing conditions that are closely monitored for folx on HRT are also present at higher rates among Black, Indigenous, and other Persons of Color (BIPOC) communities.Īs we’ve seen with COVID, our healthcare systems do not care for BIPOC bodies as well as they care for white bodies.
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