The Urgent Need for Authentic Leadership and Allyship in Health Care

Abstract

Authentic leadership is a core competency to creating a healing environment where all voices can be seen, heard, and affirmed. There is an unprecedented attack on LGBTQ+ individuals across state legislatures and executive branches, taking aim at identity and going so far as to make gender-affirming care a felony. Nurses are taught to be advocates and the most trusted profession in the United States and therefore are in a vital place to lend their voice, act, advocate, and educate . [ J Contin Educ Nurs. 2023;54(5):201–203.]