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 … Continue reading Database overhaul
This checklist for initiating gender-affirming hormone treatment aligns with New Zealand and international best practice. Reference materials Continue reading Checklist for initiating gender-affirming hormone treatment
One of our main focuses in 2022 is advocating for informed consent in gender affirming healthcare. Informed consent is a legal right in all areas of New Zealand healthcare. However, there is a long history of access to transgender healthcare being dependent on diagnoses and psychological assessments. Gender Minorities Aotearoa will be delivering a free … Continue reading Free webinar for primary health providers – informed consent
Check out our 3 minute video on informed consent in gender affirming healthcare. You can also download this video as a PDF. We also want to give a shoutout to AusPATH – you can find their Standards of Care in our health information section here. These standards are some of the best we’ve seen. While … Continue reading Informed Consent 101 – a 3 minute guide
March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility, and we’re asking you to bring visibility to trans issues by writing letters to healthcare decision makers. Continue reading Transgender day of visibility 2022
Check out some key activities we did in 2021 below, or see our 2021-2022 Annual Report to find out more. Core priority areas for 2021 1. Wrap around support.2. Healthcare.3. Housing.4. Identity Documents.5. Connectedness.6. Sexual violence prevention. We provided 1:1 peer support over 2,000 times, and there were over 600 visits to our Wellington drop … Continue reading 2021-2022 annual report
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has released it’s Standards of Care version 8, which is now open for comment until December 16th 2021. It’s expected to be completed in 2022 and released mid next year. At a glance, it appears to be a major improvement on the previous version. You can click through … Continue reading WPATH SoC 8 open for comment
The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill submissions close tonight at 11.59pm, 9 December 2021. There is still time to make a submission, even if it’s as simple as saying “Please name transgender people as a priority group. We don’t want to be lumped into ‘rainbow’, we want our unique disparities addressed and our unique needs … Continue reading Submission on the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill
We support the intent of this Bill, however as it stands we believe it does not fulfill it’s intent to protect transgender populations from conversion practices. Continue reading Conversion Practices Submission
Information on starting hormone therapy as a transgender patient in Aotearoa NZ. Continue reading Starting on Hormones – what is actually required?
