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Action Committee overview: Gender & Sexuality

The Gender & Sexuality (GS) Action Committee is responsible for executing AMSA’s programming and advocacy efforts in issues of gender & sexuality by (1) ensuring equal access within health care and within medical education for women and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTQ+) persons, and (2) supporting the training of medical students to become excellent health care providers for women and for LGBTQ+ persons. Toward these goals, the GS Action Committee advocates for policies that will improve the health or health care access for everyone including LGBTQ+ persons, and develops programming that will improve the training of medical students in the care of women and LGBTQ+ patients. Additionally, GS supports all women, LGBTQ+, and ally medical students by fostering a safe and inclusive environment, providing leadership opportunities, and advocating for their rights. 

Women’s issues include but are not limited to reproductive health and rights, sexual health, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, representation of gender in research, disparities in health between men and women, and promoting and recognizing women in medicine. LGBTQ+ issues include but are not limited to a need for medical education reform, sexual health, healthy relationships, trauma-informed care, structural and physical violence against LGBTQ+ community, marriage and adoption equality with regard to patient rights, intimate partner violence, disparities in health within the queer and intersex community, promoting and recognizing LGBTQ+ people in medicine, and inclusion and equitable access in health care. 

Position description

Advocacy Coordinators are understood to serve within the larger context of AMSA’s Advocacy and Action work. Leveraging their areas of expertise, they will engage in the following in close consultation with AMSA’s Legislative Affairs Director:

• • Organize and lead Advocacy Bootcamps and skill-based trainings which provide students with the opportunity to engage in timely, directed action on a matter relating both to AMSA’s organizational advocacy priorities and the scope of their Action Committee.
  • Develop and maintain advocacy-related opportunities that deepen student engagement in organizational issue-advancement efforts, including but limited to cultivating practical competencies, such as power mapping, legislative meeting skills, and tools aimed to strengthen the confidence needed to drive systemic change.
  • Support the development of advocacy resources, including but not limited to skill-building tools, policy briefs, action guides, and communication materials, that are maintained and assessed periodically throughout each leadership term to remain aligned with AMSA’s advocacy priorities and evolving member needs. 
  • Oversee the alignment of committee-specific projects with AMSA’s core advocacy priorities, thoughtfully integrating Advocacy & Action deliverables into all initiatives.