We're very pleased to announce that the national guidelines for trans healthcare in Aotearoa have been released, and can be found here.
Aotearoa Trans Healthcare Guidelines Released
Free Laser Facial Hair Removal
Facial hair removal is one of the most urgent, safety enhancing, mental health improving, and empowering medical treatments for many trans women and non-binary people.
Genital Reconstruction Surgery Update
YES surgeries are happening. The High Cost Treatment Pool is operating, and trans women are being sent to Manakau based surgeon Dr Rita Yang, after 6 months of hair removal treatment in the genital area, as per Rita's preferred method.
Trans Health Surveys
Please take time this weekend to fill in the Counting Ourselves survey that we helped to develop, so we have large scale national data on takataapui, trans, and intersex people's health.
Transgender Health Care Now: Wellington Pride Parade
March 10th 2018, takataapui, transgender, and intersex people and supporters walked, danced, and rode along in the Wellington International Pride Parade with a clear message: transgender health care now!
Binding Safely
Safe chest binding information poster - free to download and distribute.
NZ Top 5 Transgender Primary Health Care Resources
NZ Top 5 Transgender Primary Health Care Resources - Aotearoa New Zealand
Video Seminars: Diversity and Inclusive Primary Healthcare
Fantastic video resources - Pharmac Seminar Presentations on diversity and inclusive primary healthcare, including Trans 101 and Gender Diversity.
Representing Trans: Linguistic, Legal and Everyday Perspectives
A beautiful book that shares some really interesting insights and perspectives, complete with stunning photography by Fiona Clark. Representing Trans is due for release on Thursday 12th October 2017.
Top 10 Resources for Gender Minority Young People and their Whanau
Welcome to our Top 10 for Youth and Whanau! The process of working out your gender, as well as telling your family, can be a tricky one. Sometimes our whanau struggle to understand or accept this too. Sometimes they really want to support us, but they don't know the right words, or have a really good way to think about it yet. This post is a collection of great reading material and videos for you and your whanau, which might help to make the process easier.
