Everyone is Welcome: Improving Accessibility for LGBTQ+ individuals with a disability

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The LGBTQ+ community is a diverse group of individuals who may differ not only on their sexual and romantic orientation or gender identity. For instance, individuals who are transgender and gender-diverse are 3-6 times more likely to be autistic compared with their cisgender counterparts (Warrier et al., 2020).  A national dataset also found that 22% of LGBT respondents reported a disability or long-term health condition (O’Shea et al., 2020).  For these individuals, this can create magnified ‘minority stress’ where not only does the individual need to navigate the stigma and discrimination from being a member of the LGBTQ+ community but also that of having a disability.  Individuals who have a disability often experience barriers to service access as well as barriers accessing to LGBTQ+ spaces. Below are some tips and simple adjustments that can be made to make services more accessible for autistic individuals and those with a disability.  It is recommended that services check in with clients prior to the first appointment to ensure any adjustments are personalised to the individual.

Examples of reasonable adjustments:

Ways in which LGBTQ+ spaces can be more welcoming for autistic individuals or those with disabilities:

References

O’Shea, A., Latham, J., Beaver, S., Lewis, J., Mountford, R., Rose, M, Trezona, A., Frawley, P. (2020). More than Ticking a Box: LGBTIQA+ People With Disability Talking About Their Lives. Geelong: Deakin University.

Warrier V, Greenberg DM, Weir E, Buckingham C, Smith P, Lai MC, Allison C, Baron-Cohen S. Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals. Nat Commun. 2020 Aug 7;11(1):3959. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17794-1. PMID: 32770077; PMCID: PMC7415151.

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