BIPOC & LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY

"That population of access to health anyway are already, there’s already barriers because of skin colour, orientation you know, especially in trans, in accessing health care in transitioning. So there are already a lot of barriers just because of who they are, so you add an eating disorder in there." - Michelle from NEDIC

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"I think there are unique challenges for BIPOC like Black Indigenous People of Colour because first of all, there’s so many issues. A lot of the studies that are done, are done on primarily white populations and the research is underrepresented of different ethnicities and other diversity elements. Media is overall dominated by depictions of physical attractiveness that are primarily Caucasian influenced." - Michelle Scott

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"A lot of non-binary and trans people will engage in eating disorder behaviour to change their body constitution or their body shape to better match their gender identity." - Michelle Scott