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Peter Hyndal presented at a Men’s Health Conference in Newcastle, last week. A “National Health Gathering” presented by the Australasian Men’s Health Forum. For the conference he wrote a paper named Beyond boxes: Sex and gender diversity and health service provision
We’ll be posting the contents of his presentation over the next few weeks, in tasty bite sized morsels, and the full presentation (with all its references intact) will be available to download at the end of the series.
The story so far:
1 Introduction and Terms
2 What does sex and gender diversity have to do with Men’s Health?
3 Medical Professionals involvement in Making Men
Todays post, is beyond the jump:
Recommendation: Accepting Dad
A little while ago I was recommended a blog called “Accepting Dad“, and I have since then been watching it to see why it was recommended to me. I have to say that even though I don’t agree with all of his theories, and ideas, I’ve been super impressed by the authors honesty, integrity, and genuine desire to do the best he can by his kid.
So I’m recommending to all of you as well, take a look at this blog. If you are the parent of a queer or trans kid, follow it, find strength and community in it. Every kid deserves a parent who’s willing to try this hard.
Here’s a quote to whet your appetite:
At first, they’re so young, so innocent, it’s hard to say no. It’s just a doll. Just a pink blanket. Everyone assures you too, that it doesn’t mean a thing. Everyone knows someone who was just like that, just like your kid, and now he’s fine, working the super-pro wrestling circuit as a seven-foot tall, 300 pound steroid giant. Or he’s a trucker, or a fireman, or some other manly member of the Village People. Normal! Super normal! Not a drag queen, anyway!
No, it doesn’t mean a thing.
Except, after a year, or two, or three you know it does. Now, you’re the parent—what are you going to to do about it?
Beyond Boxes Series: Medical Professionals and Making Men
Peter Hyndal presented at a Men’s Health Conference in Newcastle, last week. A “National Health Gathering” presented by the Australasian Men’s Health Forum. For the conference he wrote a paper named Beyond boxes: Sex and gender diversity and health service provision
We’ll be posting the contents of his presentation over the next few weeks, in tasty bite sized morsels, and the full presentation (with all its references intact) will be available to download at the end of the series.
First post: Introduction and Terms
Second Post: What does sex and gender diversity have to do with Men’s Health?
Todays post, is beyond the jump:
Beyond Boxes Series: Sex and Gender Diversity and Mens Health
Peter Hyndal presented at a Men’s Health Conference in Newcastle, last week. A “National Health Gathering” presented by the Australasian Men’s Health Forum. For the conference he wrote a paper named Beyond boxes: Sex and gender diversity and health service provision
We’ll be posting the contents of his presentation over the next few weeks, in tasty bite sized morsels, and the full presentation (with all its references intact) will be available to download at the end of the series.
The first post is First post: Introduction and Terms and todays post, is beyond the jump:
New Events Page and other Web Updates
I’m sure that no one else cares nearly as much as I do about each and every little thing I do to the website, but I like to keep folk in the loop.
You can see our new events page layout now. We have a lot of events coming up in the next couple of months, and now they are displayed in style. Remember, if you are hosting a trans friendly event, we are more than happy to advertise it for you on our website.
The other addition to the website in the last couple of days, is the Legal Information section. There’s not much there yet, but there is a couple of bits of legislation that are handy for people that are changing their name, or sex documentation.
I think I’m finally getting the hang of this website biz.
Beyond Boxes Blog Series: Introduction and Terms
Peter Hyndal presented at a Men’s Health Conference in Newcastle, last week. A “National Health Gathering” presented by the Australasian Men’s Health Forum. For the conference he wrote a paper named Beyond boxes: Sex and gender diversity and health service provision
We’ll be posting the contents of his presentation over the next few weeks, in tasty bite sized morsels, and the full presentation (with all its references intact) will be available to download at the end of the series.
Todays post, is beyond the jump:
October Picnic Fun
We had our October picnic on Saturday. The weather was beautiful, the food delicious, and the company fun! We had some new faces there, so it was nice to chill out and make some new friends.
We wont be having any more events for a couple of weeks, as the SpringOut Pride festival swiftly approaches. Watch this space for advertisements for our events during November though!
Teachers of Tomorrow
Today I participated as part of a panel of LGBT educators and youth workers to a graduate class of teaching students at the University of Canberra. The other presenters were excellent. Two educators presented on having non-normative family structure, and a youth worker presented on homosexuality and bisexuality. I attempted to speak about supporting gender non-conforming children in their roles as teachers.
I’d never spoken on this topic before, but unfortunately I was the only person available for the presentation. I felt very nervous, and probably should have made more effort to prepare before hand. Still, people seemed to be into the presentation, and I gave out our website address, so that hopefully some of the people in the room will be able to come here and find some more useful information.
Talking to people who genuinely want to be able to help trans people is something that really makes this gig worthwhile. Sometimes I get frustrated, and burned out, and wonder if anyone actually cares about this stuff… and then I present somewhere, or speak to someone who is curious, and interested, and wants to be helpful. The vibe I got from this presentation was amazingly positive, and I really appreciate that the teachers at the University of Canberra are making the effort to equip their students to make life a bit easier for the next generation of gender non-conforming and queer kids going through our schooling system.
Emergency Support Services
I have added a page of emergency support services to the main website. So far we have financial services, legal advice, and emergency accommodation listings. I urge you to go and have a look at it, and if you know of another service that should be listed there, and isn’t, please don’t hesitate to let me know!
Emergency services that are safe and accessible for trans people are not common in Canberra, and this places us in a ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ situation with some service providers. There are some services that may be problematic for trans people who do not pass, for sex/gender diverse people who are bisexual, genderqueer and intersexed people who identify outside of the binary and so on. This is unfortunate, but A Gender Agenda’s dealings with other organisations, as we urge them to adopt more inclusive policies, will never prevent us from redirecting sex and gender diverse people in need to an organisation that may be able to help them.
All that said, if you do approach an organisation that is listed on our website, and have a negative experience with them, please let us know. This allows us to not only modify our listing, but to contact the organisation, and try to work with them to create a more accepting environment for sex and gender diverse people. I firmly believe that most issues arise out of ignorance on the service providers part, and education can do much to eliminate difficulties for sex and gender diverse people in community organisations. After all, people don’t work in community orgs for the money! They do it because they are good people, and want to help the world be a better place!
The directory of support services will expand as time goes on, we plan on adding sections for medical practices, counselling services, domestic violence and rape crisis centers, support services for people with disabilities, indigenous people, youth, and financially disadvantaged people. If you have suggestions for any of those sections, also let us know!
Comment Function Working Again
Hi everyone,
I got a bit curious earlier today as to why I hadn’t had anyone comment on the A Gender Agenda blog since I upgraded the Wordpress software to the latest version. I had checked just after the upgrade, and I was able to post comments fine, logged in as the administrator, but I hadn’t checked if regular users could add comments!
It seems that the comment function has been broken for about 2 weeks. Its fixed now though, so if you had something to say, and it had disappeared into oblivion, try posting it again, and I should get it!
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