Interview with Stephanie Luz Hernandez

An interview with Stephanie Luz Hernandez, LMFT, a queer Latinx trans-femme licensed mental health therapist, gender health specialist, and trans health activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the time of this interview, she worked at a clinic in Oakland, California supporting trans and gender nonconforming adolescents and adults in accessing gender-affirming health care. In addition to her clinical work, she is active in grassroots efforts to decolonize and depathologize trans health, reduce barriers to care, and increase the presence of BIPOC professionals in the field. In this oral history interview, Luz Hernandez discusses her work with trans and gender nonconforming adolescents and their families, her entry into trans politics and health work in the Bay Area in the mid-2000s, and her thoughts on and experiences within trans healthcare. Specifically, she discusses the relationship between the hormone care and HIV/public health spheres of trans health, changes in trans healthcare since the early 2000s, differing philosophies of care in pediatric trans healthcare as well as its recent exploitation as a political wedge issue, the persistent issue of provider letter requirements and her work with the Gender Affirming Letter Access Project (GALAP,) the history of Eurocentric concepts of pathological transness and their lasting impacts, and the 2019 USPATH panel she participated in on decolonizing and depathologizing trans health.

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Identifier: 8k71nh39w
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Luz Hernandez, Stephanie
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Chamness, Daria
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Aug. 20, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Gender Affirming Letter Access Project (GALAP)
Places: California > Alameda County > Oakland
California > Bay Area
Topic(s): BIPOC
Femmes
Gender affirming surgery
Health care for LGBTQ+ people
Hormone therapy (Gender)
Latino/a/x transgender people
LGBTQ+ people of color
Medical care
Queer people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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