Every “LGBTQ-friendly” badge on the internet is self-reported. Auditors are the reason the Bloom Directory will mean something different.
An auditor takes a submitted listing and works through a standard rubric. Does the intake form have a chosen name field? Is there a step at the entrance? Does the published policy match what a phone call actually reveals? Is the accessibility claim about a bathroom accurate, or aspirational?
You are not writing a review or forming an impression. You are answering specific questions against evidence, which is what makes the result defensible and what keeps the directory from becoming another pile of opinions.
Affirming and accessible are scored separately and never blended. A clinic can be genuinely warm to trans patients and still have three steps at the door. Averaging those into one friendly number is how existing directories quietly fail disabled people, and we are not repeating it.
The Directory is in development. We are building the auditor pool now so that the day it opens there is real verified data in it rather than an empty shell.
This form is being wired up. You can reach us right now at hello@bloomministries.org — a person reads it.
If you have navigated a healthcare system as a trans person or as a disabled person, you already know what to look for better than most professional evaluators. No credential is required.
Audits are attributed to Bloom, not to you. Your name never appears on a listing, and a business never learns who audited it.
47 people were helped before we asked for a dollar. Monthly giving is what lets us say yes before the money is in hand.