Diversity & Inclusion: Black Lives Matter
On The Down Lola
This is a big topic, and as such it makes for a longer episode. We apologize for the delay in getting it out to you and hope that you will find a lot of discussion worthy information.
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Healthcare
On The Down Lola
Lola and Thom had a lovely chat about the state of healthcare and the SOGI communities.
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Healthcare
On The Down Lola
Lola and Thom had a lovely chat about the state of healthcare and the SOGI communities.
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Diversity & Inclusion: The Language Barrier
On The Down Lola
On The Down Lola is breaking down the topic of Diversity & Inclusion in a series of episodes. In this episode of OTDL, Lola is joined by a good Pride Judy, Tiffany Hanson. They broke down the often over looked topic of barriers to inclusion due to language.
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LIVE Quarantertainment
On The Down Lola
With venues closed and entertainers stuck at home, they have taken to social media to try and save their income. Thom joined in once again and we kicked off with a wonderful example of a queen that made her "live" fame SLEEPING!
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NERDS!
On The Down Lola
Nothing like a little quarantine boredom to get us back to recording new episodes. In this episode Lola was joined by good nerdy Judys, Thom Turner and Lylyth Faire to chat about NERDS! We broke down a little about what makes a nerd and are they as hot as we hear? the answer is YES! Ranker had a fun list of nerd interests that we broke down. Much of it made us think that everyone must be a nerd.
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Merry Christmas
On The Down Lola
This year, give yourself the gift self care.
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2019 In Review
On The Down Lola
Lola was joined by regular guest Thomas Turner, daughter Lylyth Faire, and comedian Gwen Sunkel to take a look at the year that was. 2019 was a full year and marks the end of a decade and the beginning on a new roaring twenties.
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Happy Holigays! Stay Tuned...
On The Down Lola
Keep your ears peeled for our End Of Year Review! We will be welcoming back some of our favorite guests and chat about the year that was!
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Shopping LGBTQ Friendly
On The Down Lola
Lola was once again joined by best Judy, Thom Turner. They took a look at a few ways to analyze a companies support of LGBTQ communities. What we found is that a company's support should be based on several factors. Is a company's support of customers matched in it's support of it's employees? So many questions.
info_outlineLola and Thom had a lovely chat about the state of healthcare and the SOGI communities.
Episode Notes:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- is tasked with ensuring the health and well-being of all Americans
- HHS works to ensure that LGBT Americans, families, and communities receive equal access to health services by providing enhanced resources for LGBT health issues
- They developing better information regarding LGBT health needs; and working to close the LGBT health disparities gap that currently exists.
HRC Article: “Trump-Pence Admin Moves To Undermine LGBTQ Non-Discrimination Protections in Health Care”
https://www.hrc.org/blog/trump-pence-admin-moves-to-undermine-lgbtq-protections-in-health-care
- April 24th, 2020
- HRC responded to Trump administration’s latest actions to undermine the rights and welfare of the SOGI community.
- Siting Politico:
- the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is one step closer to finalizing a major change to the federal regulation implementing the civil rights provision, Section 1557, of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to remove explicit protections for LGBTQ people in health care programs and activities by excluding protections from discrimination based on sex stereotyping and gender identity.
- HRC President Alphonso David responded:
- “…efforts to remove existing non-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community is unacceptable, blatantly offensive, and cruel…”
- “…We will fight this policy & fight to get a pro-equality President into office this November who represents all of us.”
- According to HRC Foundation’s analysis of the 2018 BRFSS,
- 17% of LGBTQ adults do not have any kind of health insurance coverage, compared to 12% of non-LGBTQ adults.
- Furthermore,
- 23% of LGBTQ adults of color,
- 22% of transgender adults
- 32% of transgender adults of color have no form of health coverage.
- This can lead to avoidance of medical care even when medically necessary and to severe economic hardship when medical care is ultimately accessed
What do these attacks look like?
- Vice President Mike Pence and Office for Civil Rights Director Roger Severino.
- Have reallocated significant resources away from civil rights and patient privacy in order to expand religious exemptions,
- enacted rules that severely restrict access to reproductive health care, and undermine strong nondiscrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act.
- On Friday, November 1, 2019—the first day of National Adoption Month
- the HHS announced that it would not enforce strong and comprehensive regulations requiring its grantees to ensure that federal taxpayer dollars are not used to fund discrimination and that it would seek to replace these regulations with weak and ambiguous ones.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
- Represents more than 3 million members and supporters nationwide.
- It is the largest national LGBTQ civil rights organization
- Their mission is to ensure basic equal rights for all LGBTQ people at home, at work, and in the greater community.