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Podcast: 5 Things Nursing Podcast by RBWH
Episode: Ep 3: Five Things About Gender Diversity With Bec Cooley (Bonus)
Description: Bonus episode for Transgender Awareness Week.
Liz and Jesse are joined by Bec Cooley, a social worker who is the Gender Services Coordinator at RBWH. Bec gives us a clinician's crash course to help provide more supportive and aware care to Trans and Gender Diverse patients and be a better ally at work and in the community.
Bec's 5 things:
1. Know what gender diversity is and what it means.
2. Pronouns, Names and Language.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Only ask gender-related questions if/when clinically relevant.
5. You act...