Our LGBTIQA+ Equity and Inclusion Framework, shapes our commitment to health equity and increased access for people with diverse bodies, identities and experiences.
Safe and inclusive primary health care
We will continue to advocate for safe, inclusive and culturally appropriate services to improve equity and access for LGBTIQA+ people.
We are committed to working internally, with services we commission and with primary care services to support their journeys to developing cultural competency and safety for people with diverse bodies, identities and experiences.
The LGBTIQA+ Equity and Inclusion Framework sets out the key elements of inclusion and principles to guide the design, development and delivery of services by our staff, commissioned service providers and primary care services, to facilitate a consistent, safe service experience for LGBTIQA+ people and communities.
Framework
This Framework is the result of consultation with LGBTIQA+ people and communities, peak bodies and service providers on how our staff and commissioned primary health care services can become more equitable and inclusive in providing for the diversity of LGBTIQA+ health needs.
Toolkit
Welcome to the LGBTIQA+ Toolkit.
This Toolkit has been compiled based on advice from our LGBTIQA+ stakeholders and is to be used as guidance only.
It is at the discretion of users of the Toolkit to determine the suitability and currency of this Toolkit to meeting their needs.
Toolkit Resources
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Please note, this toolkit is reviewed and updated regularly.
If you wish to have resources added to this Toolkit, please contact us on feedback@wapha.org.au.
Reflective assessment
- Test Your Own Unconscious Bias – Diversity Australia
- Implicit Association Test – Harvard
Training modules
- Opening Closets training (Living Proud)
- Trans 101 training (TransFolk WA)
- LGBTIQA+ Diversity Training (Sexual Health Quarters)
- LGBTIQ Cultural Competency and Inclusive Practice workshop (Connection and Wellbeing Australia)
- Working with Pride: Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces for LGBTIQA+ Staff, Clients, and Communities (IPAA)
- LGBTIQA+ inclusion training (WAAC)
- Pride Inclusion programs (ACON)
- LGBTIQA+ inclusive practice training (Rainbow Health Australia)
- Multicultural perspectives of sexual and gender diversity training (AGMC)
- Working with gender diverse young people and their families webinar (Australian Institute of Family Studies)
Videos and podcasts
- The urgency of intersectionality – TED
- Why am I “so gay?” – TED
- LGBTQ Play List – TED
- The Myths of Gay Adoption – TED
- The Importance of Inclusive Language – TED
- Pride in my Faith – Advance Diversity Services
- Video Interview: Practical Inclusion – Queer Muslim Representation – Bree Gorman
Guides and resources
- Understanding the differences between Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer people (LGBTIQ+ Health Australia)
- Transforming Families: resources for parents and carers of trans and gender diverse children and young people
- Inclusive communication with LGBTIQ+ clients (Australian Institute of Family Studies)
- Misgendering + Pronouns: A guide to using inclusive language when speaking languages other than English (Wear it Purple)
- Living True, Living Better resource pack (AusPATH)
- Me & My Doctor: LGBTIQA+ specific version of the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights (Youth Pride Network and Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia)
- TransHub: digital resource hub for trans folk, our loved ones, allies and clinicians
- We Respect Your Pronouns Here poster (TransHub)
- TransAtWork: A guide for trans and gender diverse employees, their employers and colleagues
- The Genderbread Person: understanding gender edugraphic (Sam Killermann)
- A Quick Guide to Australian LGBTI Anti-Discrimination Laws (Alastair Lawrie)
- Helping Diverse Families Learn to Support LGBTQ Children (Family Acceptance Project)
Intersex resources
- Resources, posters and content designed for and by people with an Innate Variation in Sex Characteristics (IVSC) (InterLink)
- Briefings and policy reports (InterAction for Health and Human Rights)
- Healthcare pathways (InterAction for Health and Human Rights)
Research links
- LGBTQIA+ Health and Inclusive Healthcare in General Practice An Introduction to Teaching and Learning – General Practice Supervisors Australia
McNair, Ruth, Asiel Adan Sanchez, Clara Tuck Meng Soo, Morgan Carpenter, and Mark Hughes. 2021 - What Do Intersex People Need from Doctors? – O&G Magazine
Carpenter, Morgan. 2018 - Intersex Lived Experience: Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth in Narratives – Psychology & Sexuality
Hart, Bonnie, and Jane Shakespeare-Finch. 2021. - Home is where our story begins: CALD LGBTIQ+ people’s relationships to family – Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Asquith, N.L., Collison, A., Lewis, L. 2019. - AMA Position Statement Sexual and Reproductive Health 2014 – Australian Medical Association. (2014)
- AMA Position Statement: Marriage Equality – Australian Medical Association. (2017)
- Supporting Autonomy for Patients with Differences of Sex Development (DSD) (Resolution 3-A-16 – American Medical Association. (2017)
- Should Surgery for Hypospadias Be Performed Before an Age of Consent? – Journal of Sex Research
Carmack, A., Notini, L., & Earp, B. (2015) - Shadow Report submission to the Human Rights Committee on the situation of intersex people in Australia
Carpenter, M., & Organisation Intersex International Australia. (2017). - Managing intersex, Most vaginal surgery in childhood should be deferred – British Medical Journal, 323, 1264–1265.
Creighton, S., & Minto, C. (2001). - Childhood surgery for ambiguous genitalia: glimpses of practice changes or more of the same? – Psychology and Sexuality
Creighton, S. M., Michala, L., Mushtaq, I., & Yaron, M. (2014). - Third gender fights for recognition – SWI Swissinfo.ch
Eichenberger, I. (2013, January 23). - Re-Thinking Genital Surgeries on Intersex Infants – Palm Center
Elders, M. J., Satcher, D., & Carmona, R. (2017) - Ethical Principles for the Management of Infants with Disorders of Sex Development – Hormone Research in Paediatrics
Gillam, L. H., Hewitt, J. K., & Warne, G. L. (2010) - Consensus statement on management of intersex disorders – Archives of Disease in Childhood
Hughes, I. A., Houk, C., Ahmed, S. F., Lee, P. A., & LWPES/ESPE Consensus Group. (2006) - I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me. – New York: Human Rights Watch. (2017)
- A Changing Paradigm. – New York: Human Rights Watch. (2017)
- Intersexion: The Birth of Ambiguity – Presented at the Melbourne Medical Student Conference 2020, University of Melbourne
Hutson, John, Sonia Grover, Clare Delany, and Morgan Carpenter. 2020. - Parental choice on normalising cosmetic genital surgery.
Liao, L.-M., Wood, D., & Creighton, S. M. (2015). - Female genital appearance: “normality” unfolds – BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Lloyd, J., Crouch, N. S., Minto, C. L., Liao, L.-M., & Creighton, S. M. (2005). - Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children Must Stop
Physicians for Human Rights. (2017, October 20). - Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Young People Position Statement.
Royal Australasian College of Physicians. (2015, November). - Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia.
Senate, Community Affairs References Committee. (2013). - Sexual health, human rights and the law – World Health Organization. (2015).
- The Rights of Children in Biomedicine: Challenges posed by scientific advances and uncertainties – Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe.
Zillén, K., Garland, J., & Slokenberga, S. (2017). - You Can’t Be Gay and Do Religion: Understanding Muslim LGBTIQ+ Experiences of Accessing Support Services: Journal of Intercultural Studies
Pallotta-Chiarolli, M., Sweid, R., Sudarto, B. - Breaking the Silence: Insights from WA Services Working with Aboriginal/ LGBTIQ+ People – Kurongkurl Katitjin, Edith Cowan University. Perth. WA
Hill, B., Uink, B., Dodd, J., Bonson, D., Eades, A. & S. Bennett (2021) - I can hide the fact that I’m queer but can’t hide the colour of my skin – new study reveals the impact of being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and LGBTIQ+
- Same-sex parented families in Australia – Child Family Community Australia
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Sample policies for commissioned services
Clinical and referral information
- Transgender Health and Gender Diversity HealthPathway – Clinician Assist WA
- Recommended services – TransFolk WA
Data collection and evaluation