Two webinars delivered by Intersex Aotearoa and Te Ngākau Kahukura with support from the Council of Medical Colleges and the New Zealand Medical Students Association

As trans and intersex-led organisations, we are invested in working with the wider health system to help people, practices and systems work better for trans and intersex people.

These webinars will help you work respectfully with trans and intersex people in healthcare settings. We’ll discuss the importance of patient-centred care, with a focus on respect, privacy, and self-determination. We will explore what it means to implement a human rights approach to intersex and trans healthcare, and how this relates to accessing community support.

These webinars are aimed at anyone working in healthcare across New Zealand. Many people assume trans and intersex health is a specialist topic - we are instead approaching it from a wider perspective based in community advocacy and public health, aiming to support collaboration between medical providers and trans and intersex organisations. 

We will not be providing clinical advice but will be exploring the connections between medical services and community support services with the goal to support health professionals to feel confident working respectfully and affirmatively with trans and intersex people and whānau.

Watch: Intersex Health

Learn more about intersex health

• Slides from the Intersex Health webinar

• Intersex Aotearoa’s website

• Previous intersex webinars:

  • Intersex Health: Information and Resources for Medical Students

  • Be There: for parents and whānau of intersex young people

  • Bodily autonomy - intersex and trans conversations

• Resources for parents and whānau of intersex young people, including Your child is a taonga from Intersex Aotearoa, VSC (variations of sex characteristics) - A Practical Guide for Parents in Aotearoa NZ and Supporting your intersex child from IGLYO (in Europe)

• Intersex Explained - a short lecture at Stanford Medicine about intersex people’s anatomy, healthcare needs and history by Hans Lindahl

• Starship guidelines for differences of sex development (focused on newborn babies with genital variations)

• International Classification of Pediatric Endocrine Diagnoses - list of diagnostic categories for differences of sex development

Watch: Trans Health

Learn more about trans health

• Slides from the trans health webinar

• Our resource page about gender-affirming healthcare

• Previous webinars about trans health:

  • A conversation about trans health and primary care

  • Bodily autonomy - intersex and trans conversations

• Resources about informed consent:

  • TransHub description of informed consent processes (written from an Australian perspective) and guide for clinicians

  • short video about informed consent from Gender Minorities Aotearoa

  • checklist for initiating hormone treatment

  • article: “Informed Consent in the Medical Care of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Patients”

  • Primary care guidelines for NZ and national guidelines for gender affirming care

  • our page about gender-affirming healthcare

• Resources about improving practice:

  • Supporting Aotearoa’s Rainbow People: Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals

  • Our Primary Care Webinar Series from 2022

  • GMA’s e-learning course Supporting Transgender People

  • Our list of rainbow, trans, intersex, takatāpui and MVPFAFF+ organisations

  • Trans Hub (Australia) resources including videos about healthcare provision

• Resources about health strategy and leadership

  • Household Economic Survey data about trans and non-binary population in NZ

  • Our curated resources about gender affirming healthcare

  • PATHA’s vision for transgender healthcare under the current health reforms

  • Intersex Aotearoa

  • Bodily Autonomy: Trans and Intersex Conversations webinar

  • Counting Ourselves Fact Sheets and Webinars

  • More about intersex communities/ organising and human rights - Darlington Statement: Joint consensus statement from the intersex community retreat in Darlington, March 2017