2024 All Care Can Be Gender-Affirming: Best Practices for Treating Trans Patients

by Anna Marie LaChance, Ph.D.
About: For a variety of reasons, transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people often don't receive proper health care. In this talk, transgender advocate Dr. Anna Marie LaChance will share her experience as a trans person navigating the world of health care and provide recommendations for providers on how to make their practice actively trans-inclusive.
Objective:
Develop actionable items to make your practice trans-inclusive.
Bio:
Dr. Anna Marie LaChance is a chemical engineer and STEM educator with numerous professional and creative projects. Through her teaching work, podcast (Rule 63), social media presence (Substack & TikTok), and local political organizing, she is an advocate for abolitionist engineering education and intersectional transfeminism.
Anna transitioned at the age of 22 while getting her PhD in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. As a graduate student, she has mentored dozens of women and gender-diverse people in STEM, empowering them to bring their “full selves” into their engineering work. She has served as a member of several graduate student organizations and has been widely recognized for her research, teaching, and mentorship, most recently with the 2021 Connecticut Women of Innovation® Award in the Inspiring STEM Equitability category by the Connecticut Technology Council-Anna was the first openly transgender or non-binary person to win in any category in the award’s 17-year history.
Anna is currently working as a Lecturer for the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.