Glorious bodies – transgender stories

Glorious bodies – transgender stories

This booklet discusses 13 personal journeys toward self-love, and discusses topics like attractiveness, shame, love, sex, and medical transition.

This resource for transgender adults is from our online course The transgender guide to sex and relationships. It is designed for transgender adults, and may not be suitable for younger viewers.

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Восхитительные тела – Russia translation

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Solving relationship issues

Solving relationship issues

This booklet discusses topics like taking responsibility in a relationship, emotional labor, relationship management, and frameworks for making decisions, setting goals, and carrying out plans together.

It is from our online course The transgender guide to sex and relationships.

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My intersex self

My intersex self

This booklet explores some of the positive and empowering ways that intersex people feel about their bodies.

This resource is from our online course The transgender guide to sex and relationships, made in collaboration with Intersex Aotearoa. It is designed for intersex and transgender adults, and may not be suitable for younger viewers

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What do bodies mean

What do bodies mean

This workbook presents many common myths about transgender people’s bodies and associated sexual behaviors, alongside the facts. It then prompts learners to choose a myth they know about, and write down the fact alongside it, including any experiences or supporting information that shows their fact is true. Then learners express their fact, or their feelings about it, by creating some poetry, art, a meme, a song, or something else.

This resource for transgender adults is from our online course The transgender guide to sex and relationships. You can download an interactive version from inside the course, which you can fill out on your device. It is designed for transgender adults, and may not be suitable for younger viewers

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Что означают тела? – Russia translation

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If you are sexually assaulted – understanding your options

If you are sexually assaulted – understanding your options

This booklet discusses getting to safety, your rights, medical and emergency contraceptive support, medical forensic examination, making a complaint to Police, legal support, counseling and ACC, crisis support, and support from friends and family.

This resource for transgender adults is from our online course The transgender guide to sex and relationships. It discusses sensitive topics, some content may be distressing.

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Identifying risks – systems for staying safe

Identifying risks – systems for staying safe

This booklet discusses different types of risks, and the idea that trusting your instincts isn’t always enough. It introduces using a risk analysis framework, which you can find out more about in our course The transgender guide to sex and relationships.

This resource is designed for transgender adults, and may not be suitable for younger viewers.

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Bad narratives – on transgender people as partners

Bad narratives – on transgender people as partners

The chart outlines some of the stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination related to trans people, sex and relationships, as well as ways this can impact a transgender person.

This is resource is from our online course The transgender guide to sex and relationships.
It is designed for transgender adults, and may not be suitable for younger viewers.

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Gender-affirming healthcare in Capital Coast and Hutt Valley

Gender-affirming healthcare in Capital Coast and Hutt Valley

We have worked extensively with the Capital Coast and Hutt Valley regional health services (formerly DHBs) to publish accurate and up to date information on what services they provide, and what the process currently is.

You can find information on:

See the link below to access their main gender-affirming services page.

Transgender women athletes and elite sport – a scientific review

Transgender women athletes and elite sport – a scientific review

The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport has released an excellent report entitled ‘Transgender Women Athletes and Elite Sport: A Scientific Review’.

Along with the full report, you can download an executive summary, and a research summary and recommendations.

Key Findings

Key Biomedical Findings

  • Biological data are severely limited, and often methodologically flawed.
  • There is limited evidence regarding the impact of testosterone suppression (through, for example, gender-affirming hormone therapy or surgical gonad removal) on transgender women athletes’ performance.
  • Available evidence indicates trans women who have undergone testosterone suppression have no clear biological advantages over cis women in elite sport.

Key Sociocultural Findings

  • Biomedical studies are overvalued in sports policies in comparison to social sciences studies.
  • Policies that impact trans women’s participation in elite sport are the continuation of a long history of exclusion of women from competitive sport – an exclusion that resulted in the introduction of a ‘women’s’ category of sport in the first place.
  • Many trans “inclusion” sport policies use arbitrary bounds that are not evidence based.
  • Cissexism, transphobia, transmisogyny and overlapping systems of oppression need to be recognized and addressed for trans women to participate in elite sport.

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Database overhaul

Database overhaul

We’re currently overhauling our gender-affirming healthcare provider database, so please bear with us as work on it!

We’re changing from a system where patients recommend their providers, to one where providers register themselves. This means we can ask which services they provide, what kind of transgender competency training they have had, and other things which will help patients to make an informed choice.

As we develop the new system, it might look a bit untidy, but all of the information you see will be up to date. The only providers you will see are those who have registered with our new system – that means the database is about ten times smaller. But rest assured, we are contacting everyone who was on the old database and asking them to register, and we’re confident that it will be better than ever going forward.

If you are a healthcare provider, please register your practice here.

If you are a patient, you can still recommend your provider here, and we will contact them to ask them to register.

You can check at the new database here.

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