Rainbow Health Coalition at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine

Rainbow Health Coalition at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine RHC is a medical student-led LGBTQIA+ organization at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harlem, NY.

We strive to educate the medical community on LGBTQIA+ issues, advocate for LGBTQIA+ patients, and champion LGBTQIA+ physician representation.

Hey friends - It’s been a minute! Update: we’ve started a new monthly newsletter! In this newsletter we briefly highligh...
04/08/2022

Hey friends - It’s been a minute!

Update: we’ve started a new monthly newsletter! In this newsletter we briefly highlight some LGBTQ+ current events and history, promote what's going on with RHC, and sprinkle a touch of glitter onto our medical education!
(Check your email for the pdf with links)

If you have specific questions or things you want to see in the next newsletter, slide into our DMs or comment! This is a safe space for learning, so feel free to ask us anything!

P.s. We’ll try to start posting more regularly 🥺

RHC is proud to partner with the National LGBT Cancer Network, !Out: The National Cancer Survey, the national survey spe...
10/22/2020

RHC is proud to partner with the National LGBT Cancer Network, !
Out: The National Cancer Survey, the national survey specifically for LGBTQI+ cancer survivors. Take the survey & help inform cancer care for the estimated 81,000 LGBTQI+ people who are diagnosed with cancer every year: https://bit.ly/outcancersurvey 

We’re excited to (re)announce our joining the ! We can’t wait to get to know all of our fellow chapters! 🥳 ...
08/10/2020

We’re excited to (re)announce our joining the ! We can’t wait to get to know all of our fellow chapters! 🥳
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10/10/2019

Hey Touro! For those who don’t know, tomorrow (Friday, October 11th) is National Coming Out Day — an annual LGBTQ awareness day acknowledging coming out and living as openly LGBTQ as the most basic form of activism. Coming out takes many forms and is often a continual process. It can be scary, confusing, liberating, celebratory, awkward, painful, surprisingly easy...no matter what the case, the act of sharing your truth is a courageous one. The RHC is here to celebrate each of our community members (students, staff, faculty, etc.) no matter where they are in their process — this day is not meant to “other” anyone who has not come out. Let’s let tomorrow remind us to further work on creating a safe, accepting, and affirming environment for each of us and our many identities. With this in mind, the RHC will be selling RAINBOW DO PINS for you to sport on your white coats. A simple symbol of solidarity and allyship can go a long way in making your patients and coworkers feel comfortable. Pins will be $5 - come find Steven Orellana and Maddie Kidd in between Lecture Halls 1 and 2 tomorrow from 11:00am-12:30pm. Pay via cash or Venmo (-Orellana). Don’t worry if you miss us — shoot us an email or come find us again next week.

Love,
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When we, as LGBTQ people, vocalize our presence and our needs, as healthcare providers and patients alike, we do it for ...
05/03/2019

When we, as LGBTQ people, vocalize our presence and our needs, as healthcare providers and patients alike, we do it for a reason. We do it because of policies like the “conscience rule” that place personal beliefs over medical standards. Fellow future physicians, you are tasked with the health and well-being of *all* the patients whom you serve. With a policy like this one in place, it will be much easier for healthcare providers to bow out of providing essentially any form of care they personally disagree with—regardless of the harm this may cause a patient. This is antithetical to medicine itself. Fellow future physicians, please consider your role as healthcare providers if healthcare itself conflicts with your personal views. Allies, please call out your peers when you witness unethical treatment and discrimination against vulnerable populations of people, all of whom deserve health and wellness. We are healers, first and foremost, and non-evidence-based beliefs have no right to interfere with our capacity to provide care.
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A reminder that existing in the world as an LGBTQ person is, in fact, an act of rebellion. But constant rebellion—thrivi...
05/02/2019

A reminder that existing in the world as an LGBTQ person is, in fact, an act of rebellion. But constant rebellion—thriving in the face of people and belief systems that fight to remind you that you do not belong on a daily basis—can be exhausting. Future doctors, your LGBTQ patients exist in rebellion, and they are tired. Think about this, and treat them with kindness, care, and empathy in return.
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We’ve posted before about the existence of gender on a spectrum rather than a binary...this is also true for s*x! We’ve ...
05/01/2019

We’ve posted before about the existence of gender on a spectrum rather than a binary...this is also true for s*x! We’ve got a pretty important role to play in acknowledging the existence of inters*x folks—not all of your patients are simply male or female. Inters*x is a broad umbrella term that includes everything from the clinical chromosomal patterns you’ve learned about in Genetics to non-clinical identities based on natural variance in go**ds. Often physicians decide to assign newborns as “male” or “female” at birth, even if the infant’s ge****ls don’t lie on either side of this binary. Too often, inters*x newborns have undergone non-consensual “normalizing” surgeries (Inters*x Ge***al Mutilation) at the hands of physicians. Forcing an individual who is inters*x into categories like this can do a lot of serious, lifelong damage. Future doctors, please protect your inters*x patients, and fight ignorance in the medical community by acknowledging the existence of s*x characteristics on a spectrum. ⠀⠀
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Dear future doctors, you will be helping LGBTQ folks take care of their bodies, whether or not you know about their s*xu...
05/01/2019

Dear future doctors, you will be helping LGBTQ folks take care of their bodies, whether or not you know about their s*xual orientation or gender identity. The ability to which you’ll be able to accomplish this is dependent on whether or not they feel they can trust you. Be proactive in establishing that trust with your patients. RHC challenges you to be proactively kind, non-judgmental, and educated. Will you rise to the challenge?
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Dictionary.com on the use of ‘THEY’ as a pronoun: “Has someone ever asked you to refer to them as ‘they’ instead of ‘him...
04/30/2019

Dictionary.com on the use of ‘THEY’ as a pronoun: “Has someone ever asked you to refer to them as ‘they’ instead of ‘him’ or ‘her’? Are you hedging because you can’t possibly refer to one single person as ‘they’? What if we told you that ‘they’ has been used to refer to just one person since at least the 1300s?”
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Read more at: https://www.dictionary.com/e/they-is-a-singular-pronoun/

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***an visibility day was on April 26th, but we weren’t on Instagram yet! So here’s a repost from to celebrate just a f...
04/30/2019

***an visibility day was on April 26th, but we weren’t on Instagram yet! So here’s a repost from to celebrate just a few days late! Future physicians: please remember never to assume the s*xual orientation of your patients—from taking a patient’s social history to discussing their s*xual health, ask questions that are inclusive of women who love women ( ) and le****ns 🏳️‍🌈
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A great reminder to future and current physicians that gender is not a binary. There is male, there is female, and there...
04/30/2019

A great reminder to future and current physicians that gender is not a binary. There is male, there is female, and there is everything both in between and outside of this spectrum of gender identities! When interacting with and referring to patients, make sure you use gender-affirming pronouns and use intake forms that recognize the existence of those whose gender expressions are not simply “male” or “female”. (Photo credits to and )
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As future physicians, we need to make sure we’re informed on binding safety for the health and wellness of our trans pat...
04/30/2019

As future physicians, we need to make sure we’re informed on binding safety for the health and wellness of our trans patients! Tip #1: make sure your patients are never binding with tape, elastic bandages, or any other self-made solutions that could cause serious bodily damage. Check out: https://gc2b.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/202889388-binder-basics and for more binder safety tips.
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