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Senate Bill 923: A step forward in trans-inclusive health care

California’s Senate Bill 923 sets a new standard for trans-inclusive care by mandating cultural competency training and improving provider directory transparency.

1/31/2025

Senate Bill 923: A step forward in trans-inclusive health care

Grow Therapy partners with Violet to deliver culturally responsive mental health care.

By integrating Violet’s CE/CME-accredited training, Grow Therapy empowers its network of over 15,000 therapists to deliver identity-centered, inclusive care to BIPOC, LGBQ, and TGNC communities. This collaboration strengthens Grow Therapy's commitment to making mental health care more accessible, impactful, and inclusive across the nation, helping more patients connect with providers who better understand and respect their unique experiences.

10/29/2024

Grow Therapy partners with Violet to deliver culturally responsive mental health care.

Revising cervical and breast cancer screening guidelines to advance equitable health care.

How removing gendered language from HEDIS measures is making care more accessible for Trans and Gender Non-Conforming patients.

5/15/2024

Revising cervical and breast cancer screening guidelines to advance equitable health care.

Introducing the GLMA x Violet partnership for cultural competence education.

In this new collaboration, GLMA members gain free access to Violet's on-demand continuing education library.

2/21/2024

Introducing the GLMA x Violet partnership for cultural competence education.

Your LGBTQIA+ patients need more than rainbows.

Pride Month is a chance to center and celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities, but rainbow-washing—when businesses virtue signal with rainbow imagery—has become a trend in recent years. How can we better understand this issue, and more importantly, what are the ways we can prevent it?

6/8/2023

Your LGBTQIA+ patients need more than rainbows.

Black and Transgender people are tired of death statistics.

Death statistics are omnipresent in clinical education materials as well as in the media. Calculating health disparities is a useful way to measure progress toward health equity, but sharing these statistics with patients can be tricky.

2/8/2023

Black and Transgender people are tired of death statistics.

Pronouns matter in health care (and everywhere).

A significant number of patients have reported negative experiences in health care settings due to their gender identity. It's time for a change.

1/27/2023

Pronouns matter in health care (and everywhere).

6 tips for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ cultural competence training.

Cultural competence can help your team overcome the many obstacles presented in staffing, patient retention, and more.

12/22/2022

6 tips for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ cultural competence training.

What is Transgender Day of Remembrance?

To liberate the most marginalized is to liberate us all.

11/20/2022

As a disabled Afro-Latine Transgender person, I find liberation in the Embodied Care Movement.

For oppressed people, decolonizing health care isn’t a political stance–it’s necessary for our survival.

10/13/2022

As a disabled Afro-Latine Transgender person, I find liberation in the Embodied Care Movement.

Misinformation and homophobia in the time of monkeypox (MPV).

The spread of misinformation can have a dangerous impact on culturally diverse communities.

9/7/2022

Misinformation and homophobia in the time of monkeypox (MPV).

The minority stress framework and LGBTQIA+ mental health.

Jack Turban, psychiatrist, explains the minority stress framework and its effect on LGBTQIA+ people.

6/28/2022

The minority stress framework and LGBTQIA+ mental health.

Violet’s internal guide to inclusive language: Part 1

Violet is publishing our own internal guide to inclusive language which includes definitions and usage for gender and sexuality terminology.

6/15/2022

Violet’s internal guide to inclusive language: Part 1

Everyone can be an ally for gender-affirming health care. Here’s how to start.

B. Harriman writes of how to make gender-affirming health care a great experience from start to finish.

3/31/2022

Everyone can be an ally for gender-affirming health care. Here’s how to start.

3 ways to provide better health care to women.

Here's how you can help women this International Women's Day.

3/8/2022

3 ways to provide better health care to women.

What we mean when we say “Support Transgender Youth”.

We sat down with Jessica Halem to discuss the anti-trans bills.

3/3/2022

What we mean when we say “Support Transgender Youth”.

Violet against “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” & “Stop WOKE Act” bills.

We stand against the two discriminatory bills in Florida.

2/25/2022

Violet against “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” & “Stop WOKE Act” bills.

Supporting diverse communities.

At Violet we take an intersectional approach to recognizing patient identities. Here's more about how we conceptualize the communities we support

12/28/2021

The cultural competence umbrella.

Violet's approach to codifying cultural competence

7/11/2021

Understanding pronouns.

What they are, why they matter, and what to do if you make a mistake.

6/29/2021

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Senate Bill 923: A step forward in trans-inclusive health care

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TGNC.

Senate Bill 923: A step forward in trans-inclusive health care

Grow Therapy partners with Violet to deliver culturally responsive mental health care.

Revising cervical and breast cancer screening guidelines to advance equitable health care.

Introducing the GLMA x Violet partnership for cultural competence education.

Your LGBTQIA+ patients need more than rainbows.

Black and Transgender people are tired of death statistics.

Pronouns matter in health care (and everywhere).