Eating disorders are not taken seriously in marginalized people and often,their eating disorders are often overlooked. Marginalized people seeking professional help may find eating disorders services ineffective to provide the interventions and treatment for their intersecting identities. When eating disorders occurs in marginalized people, the medical and psychological aspects are even more complex due to oppression, isolation, and stigmatization.
Most eating disorders services are constructed for cisgender, heterosexual, affluent, thin, able bodied women and cannot offer appropriate services for a more diverse client population.
Many people with eating disorders are BIPOC, transgender or non-binary, poor, fat, disabled, neurodivergent, or some combination of the above. Our current treatment models, however, are informed by stereotypes and systems of oppression, only perpetuating harm done to already marginalized communities. Eating Disorders treatment programs, advocates and clinicians must work together to ensure all individuals with eating disorders, regardless of identity, can access safe and intersectional treatment options. 
