52. Trans Athletes Access to Sport Medicine with Em Munson

MAC Performance Podcast

English - June 28, 2021 05:10 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB
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This week we explore trans athlete's access to sports medicine. When athletes do now effectively communicate with their sports medicine team, they can put themselves in danger. They may avoid their trainer because of fear of being targeted. Let's listen to Em walk us through what their research found.

Em is a certified/licensed athletic trainer, currently working at Lake Erie College in Ohio. They also research and educate on LGBTQ+, particularly trans, inclusion in sports medicine. Their first study, “Transgender Athletes' Experiences With Health Care in the Athletic Training Setting”, was published in the Journal of Athletic Training in December 2020. Being a non-binary/trans AT and a former college athlete themself, Em hopes to use their own voice and platform to create structural change and give other trans/non-binary athletes and younger clinicians the resources Em wishes they would have had.

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