Enhance your capacity to deliver safe, respectful, and affirming care for trans and gender diverse patients in general practice.
General practitioners play a critical role in supporting the health and wellbeing of trans and gender diverse people. Many patients have experienced stigma, discrimination, or exclusion in healthcare settings, which can significantly influence their willingness to seek care and their overall health outcomes. Developing inclusive, evidence‑based practice is essential to creating environments where trans and gender diverse people feel safe, respected, and confident accessing primary healthcare.
This comprehensive full‑day training deepens your understanding of trans and gender diverse identities, lived experiences, and health priorities, while equipping you with practical, clinically relevant strategies to embed affirming care into everyday general practice. Developed and delivered by trans and gender diverse community members and subject matter experts, the session blends foundational knowledge with applied clinical learning, including case studies, reflective activities, and real‑world scenarios.
This GP‑specific version includes exclusive video content from leading trans‑affirming GP Dr Portia Predny, who shares her expertise in gender‑affirming care, including hormone therapy, surgical intervention pathways, and considerations for safe, patient‑centred clinical practice.
Across the day, you’ll explore terminology, lived experience, discrimination and its impacts, gender affirmation pathways, barriers to care, and the practical steps GPs and practice teams can take to create culturally safe, inclusive, and affirming services.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define LGBTQ+ and differentiate between gender, sexuality, and related concepts.
- Describe diverse experiences within trans and gender diverse communities and recognise the importance of lived experience in clinical care.
- Outline key historical, social, and legislative influences and explain how discrimination has shaped contemporary experiences for trans and gender diverse people.
- Describe current physical, mental, and social health priorities and challenges affecting trans and gender diverse communities.
- Explain how discrimination, stigma, and exclusion impact health outcomes, help‑seeking behaviours, and engagement with general practice.
- Outline gender‑affirming healthcare, including options and considerations for social, legal, and medical gender affirmation.
- Demonstrate foundational knowledge of gender‑affirming hormone therapy and surgical intervention pathways, informed by expert clinical guidance.
- Discuss the unique challenges trans and gender diverse people may face in healthcare settings and strategies to reduce barriers and increase inclusion in general practice.
- Implement practical trans‑affirming allyship strategies using inclusive language, appropriate terminology, and respectful communication.
- Apply principles of person‑centred, culturally safe, and trauma‑informed care to support trans and gender diverse patients.
- Identify opportunities to adapt practice systems, environments, and organisational processes to increase accessibility, safety, and inclusion.
- Demonstrate confidence in everyday allyship, including how to respond to challenges and advocate for safer, more affirming care environments.
This training is also eligible for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points.
If a full‑day session isn’t practical for your team, get in touch to explore delivery in two or more parts to support spaced practice.
How To Book:
Please fill out our Training Request Form or email PrideTraining@acon.org.au to book your session today. Payment is made via invoice.
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