SOSC 2060

Course Description

This course is designed to prepare the student to have the foundational tools and skills necessary to enact culturally safe, respectful, client-centered care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual clients (LGBTQIA+). This course addresses social, legal, and political issues commonly faced by queer clients while in care. Activities support developing the skills and knowledge to set up or redesign a midwifery practice to be inclusive, affirming, and welcoming.

Learning Objectives

1. Demonstrate verbally and in writing appropriate and respectful terminology for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual clients (LGBTQIA+).

2. Summarize practices to provide prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care to all family structures within the LGBTQIA+ population.

3. Demonstrate how to serve gay individuals, couples, and surrogates in clinics and out-of-hospital settings.

4. Plan to analyze, critique, and revise forms and electronic form systems to include the LGBTQIA+ population.

5. Discuss basic techniques for intracervical insemination (ICI) and intrauterine insemination (IUI) and how to obtain or purchase sperm (live and frozen donor sperm).

6. Demonstrate skills and knowledge to work with transgender clients in clinically and culturally safe ways, including care considerations for conception, prenatal and intrapartum care, and lactation support.

7. Summarize in writing the impact of intersecting cultural identities on the individual.

8. Demonstrate listening, centering, and responding to the LGBTQIA+ client’s lived experience and care needs through case studies and role-play.

9. Self-evaluate through written reflection internal biases that may pose a risk to clients.

10. Develop plans to recognize and address microaggressions towards LGBTQIA+ clients

Elective

2 credits