We’re very pleased to announce that the national guidelines for trans healthcare in Aotearoa have been released, and can be found here. We will be updating links across our website to help facilitate their use.
Great work from all involved in their development, we are looking forward to supporting healthcare providers in putting these guidelines into action in their practices. We encourage all transgender, intersex, and takataapui patients to download a copy and pass it along to their healthcare providers.
More information on gender affirming health care can be found in the national database by clicking on the main menu.
Speak with an experienced lawyer for free at the Wellington transgender legal clinic – a collaboration between us at GMA and Community Law Wellington and Hutt Valley.
When: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month see our Calendar of Events for times. Where: GMA community drop in centre, level 1, 130 Riddiford street, Newtown, Wellington. Contact: you can drop in at the above time without an appointment, or get in touch by email or phone and a lawyer will get back to you. Cost: free.
Call, email, or drop in during legal clinic hours, and receive info on any type of legal issue – from human rights, employment, custody, and family issues, to trouble with the criminal justice system, and more.
These are a sample from the Transgender Series of videos which were recently made by Re: News. We don’t usually write blogs about media articles but these are quite timeless resources which we think would be great for many young people and their whanau, as well as others.
We put them in our list of resources here, but the formatting was messed up and we couldn’t fix it, so we thought we’d put them in a blog post and link to that instead.
Reading our pre-release copy as contributors of Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal and Everyday Perspectives, edited by Evan Hazenberg and Miriam Meyerhoff.
A beautiful book that shares some really interesting insights and perspectives, complete with stunning photography by Fiona Clark. Representing Trans is due for release this week, Thursday 12th October 2017.
We especially wish to thank Evan Hazenberg for all his korero, patience, and hard work in collaborating with us on the included essay Towards a Model of Informed Consent: Trans Healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand. Amazing work, you are the best.
Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal and Everyday Perspectives also includes great writing from Miriam Meyerhoff, Niko Besnier, Poiva Junior Ashleigh Feu’u, Lal Zimman, Jack Byrne, Fiona Clark, Christopher Hutton, Elisabeth McDonald, Kimberly Tao, and Karen Parker.
Although she didn’t write in the book, Ama Witanga was also part of our presentation team at the workshop that kicked this off, and others also contributed their korero on the day, including community advocates Karen d’Konyak, Mani Mitchell, Tom Hamilton, and others.
Conclusion: some really fantastic writing, very recommended.
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Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal and Everyday Perspectives also includes great writing from Miriam Meyerhoff, Niko Besnier, Poiva Junior Ashleigh Feu’u, Lal Zimman, Jack Byrne, Fiona Clark, Christopher Hutton, Elisabeth McDonald, Kimberly Tao, and Karen Parker.