Primary Care

Below are resources available for primary care providers and their teams.

Patient materials page - patient resources are beneficial for helping people navigate care, explore options for affirming their gender, and to learn about related health and safety tips.

Primary care toolkit - developed as a general guide to assist clinicians offering gender-affirming care for their patients.
Gender inclusive language - clinical - offers some non-gendered terms and phrases you can use with clients in clinical settings when you're unaware of the language they use in referring to their anatomy.
Sexual health screening guidelines - provides recommendations that are based on anatomy (not gender) and are inclusive of gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapy. It can also be found in the Appendix of the Primary Care Toolkit.
Sexual health screening and pelvic examination - provides affirming and trauma-informed sexual health care and pelvic examination.
HIV PrEP considerations for gender diverse patients
Gender-affirming patient care in a hospital setting - a tip sheet to help your patients have safer experiences in hospital and clinical settings.
Education for health care providers and care teams - provides quick links to resources. Useful for sharing with your team and colleagues.
Hormone Injection Supplies Toolkit - a toolkit for harm reduction sites and any organization or program interested in offering hormone injection supplies, and providing inclusive harm reduction services for trans, gender diverse, and Two-Spirit community members.

Intro to gender diversity - Expanded - This one-hour version of Intro to gender diversity is designed for care and service providers and staff who engage directly with clients, patients, and their families.
Indigenous gender diversity: Creating culturally relevant and gender-affirming services - This three-hour online course is for people working in health and social service settings to increase their awareness, knowledge, and skills when improving service access for gender diverse Indigenous people across British Columbia.
Supporting gender creative children and their families - This 90-minute online course is for people who work with children and their families. It builds on the key terms and concepts explored in the foundational course Intro to gender diversity.

Primary care learner pathway - explore Trans Care BC's CME accredited courses designed for primary care providers.
Gender-affirming primary care - Trans Care BC and UBC CPD offer a free CME accredited online medical education course designed for primary care providers in BC.
Advanced gender-affirming primary care - These CME accredited trainings are aimed at physicians and nurse practitioners looking to provide gender-affirming primary care.

Fertility care for trans and gender diverse people - presented by Dr. Beth Taylor, MD, FRCSC and moderated by Trans Care BC's medical director, Dr. Marria Townsend. (Nov. 2020)
Caring for patients undergoing gender-affirming surgeries - Presented by Trans Care BC's nurse educator. (Sept. 2018)
Gender-affirming access to care - for health clinic employees. Presented by Trans Care BC's nurse educator and education project manager. (June 2018)
Improving care for trans patients - for primary care provider. Presented by Trans Care BC's medical director. (Nov. 2017)

Trans primary care guide - Rainbow Health Ontario (Canada)
Learning resources - transgender health - National LGBT Health Education Center, Fenway Institute (USA)
Improving health care for transgender people - National LGBT Health Education Center, Fenway Institute (USA)
Transgender health learning center - UCSF Center for Excellence for Transgender Health (USA)
Acknowledging gender and sex - training module - UCSF Center for Excellence for Transgender Health (USA)

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