Opinion: It's important that healthcare staff support the proposed ban on conversion practices...
DIVERSE PEOPLE CAN help to create a more inclusive world. As a mother of five and an intensive care paediatrician, I often marvel at the complicated, unique, and brilliant qualities that make up a human being.
Specialised care Members of the LGBTQI+ community have unique healthcare needs. To ensure the medical profession is meeting their needs, doctors must not only acknowledge this but advocate for a safe culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging. Conversion ‘therapy’ Today, the medical and healthcare sectors in Ireland have much hurt and historical distrust to undo with those in the LGBTQI+ community. Patients from groups that are especially at risk of marginalisation within health and social care, e.g., the Travelling community, people living with a disability, and LGBTQI+ people, have previously reported disrespect and judgement from healthcare staff.
The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman has confirmed that the Government will soon bring forward proposals to ban conversion therapy for LGBTQI+ people. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth commissioned the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin to carry out research in this area and its findings were published earlier this year. It indicates that conversion therapy does still take place in Ireland.
Ethical questions In the Medical Council’s Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics, the role of the doctor as an ‘advocate’ is described. It is the ethical duty of a doctor to speak up for their patients, and any suggestion in the form of employment contracts or otherwise, that a doctor might be silenced is not acceptable.
Trust in healthcare and professional conduct means respect for everyone. Recently, Census 2022 statistics showed that human health, social work and education were among the largest employment sectors with 77.3% of these workers identifying as female. With a growing and progressive generation of doctors, I am confident that this flourishing sector will continue to advocate for high standards of healthcare for marginalised communities, empowering them to access safe healthcare without judgement.
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