Healthcare access for the LGBTQ community has never been entirely easy, but the Trump administration has created even more challenges to receiving that care. More obstacles call for greater solutions; and, thankfully one school launched an initiative to address those needs.

The University of Minnesota Medical School has planned an LGBTQ health elective for their students, Into reported. This is the first class of its kind to be offered in the U.S., although Harvard Medical School launched a similar elective in 2016.

University of Minnesota Medical School will partner with Family Tree Clinic and the Pride Institute, two queer-focused organizations, to establish what will be covered in the course. Six students are registered so far, but officials expect its admission to grow over time, especially considering the growing importance to cover LGBTQ-specific health concerns and to make future healthcare providers aware of the need for inclusivity within their work.

Dr. Michael Ross, chair of Sexual Health Education in the Program in Human Sexuality at the school, told Into about his hopes for the expansion of this elective: "The ultimate hope is, one, to legitimize this as an area of interest and maybe even focus for future physicians. The second is to provide the medical students who are about to become physicians with actual focused training in the populations they have an interest in serving."