What We Do
Health Liberation Now! challenges systems of inequality and oppression in transgender health and politics.
Everyone has the right to safe, effective, and compassionate health care that reflects the full spectrum of their needs, experiences, and right to self-determination. Understanding systemic oppression and how it shapes power dynamics within health care and legislative systems is vital to the liberation of anyone pursuing transgender health care.
How We Do It
Advocacy By The People, For The People
The aim is to create an inclusive, collaborative space where people are empowered to challenge health care inequality for those who are transgender, detransitioned, or questioning their gender. All content is created by real people with real experience, with the shared goal of revolutionizing transgender health care to meet our collective needs.
Respect For Autonomy & Decision Making
Everyone has the right to personal autonomy and self-determination, especially in the context of health and wellness. To support people in making the best, most informed decision as possible, we provide information and analysis from a wealth of experiences and frameworks. We also offer information and resources on how to connect with peers in ways that respect each other’s needs while working together toward health liberation.
Built On An Anti-Oppression Framework
Health liberation requires understanding that systemic oppression is a socially constructed barrier designed to maintain power hierarchies instead of treating people as equals. Critical analysis of power dynamics, and therefore how to challenge them, is essential to both personal and collective autonomy. Material covers several axes of oppression as they play into structures of transgender health care and social or political efforts to restrict, undermine, or dismantle health equity.
These areas include, but are not limited to:
- Ableism
- Transphobia
- Transmisogyny
- Racism
- Classism
- Homophobia
- Ageism
- Antisemitism
- Psychiatric oppression