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Cairns International Trans Conference
Sept 19, 2012
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Evie Ryder reports back on the Queensland Transgender Conference in Cairns and says it's a critical step towards better health for trans people.
Cairns is leading the way for Transgender health in Australia with the success of the Queensland Transgender, Sistergirl and Gender Diverse Conference held August 24-25. The conference attracted over 160 participants from not only Queensland but also interstate and internationally. There was a great mixture of community members and medical professionals attending, including the renowned Professor Milton Diamond from Hawaii and activist Peter Hyndal from A Gender Agender ACT.
Currently the Queensland Government does not count or acknowledge the existence of diverse sex and gender people in its community and does not provide any funding for transgender health. The conference provided the opportunity to celebrate and make visible the health needs of diverse sex and gender people in Queensland.