Trans & Gender Diverse Inclusive Practice In-Person

$3,685.00

Enhance your capacity to provide safe, respectful, and affirming care for trans and gender diverse clients across health and wellbeing settings.

Delivering exceptional, person‑centred care means understanding the diverse identities, experiences, and needs of trans and gender diverse people. Many clients have experienced stigma, discrimination, or exclusion in healthcare and community services, which can significantly influence their willingness to seek support and their overall health outcomes. Developing inclusive practice is therefore essential to creating environments where trans and gender diverse people feel safe, respected, and confident accessing care.

This comprehensive full‑day training deepens your understanding of trans and gender diverse identities, lived experiences, and health priorities, while equipping you with practical strategies to embed affirming practice into your everyday work. Developed and delivered by trans and gender diverse community members and subject matter experts, the session blends foundational knowledge with applied learning through case studies, reflective activities, and real‑world scenarios.

Across the day, you’ll explore terminology, lived experience, discrimination and its impacts, gender affirmation pathways, barriers to care, and the practical steps organisations and practitioners can take to create culturally safe, inclusive, and affirming services. Designed for medical professionals, practice staff, allied health workers, and community development practitioners, this training supports you to confidently engage with trans and gender diverse clients and adapt your practice to meet their unique needs.

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.
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 service engagement.
Outline gender‑affirming healthcare, including options and considerations for social, legal, and medical gender affirmation.
Discuss the unique challenges trans and gender diverse people may face in healthcare and wellbeing settings and strategies to reduce barriers and increase inclusion.
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 clients.
Identify opportunities to adapt services, environments, and organisational practices 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 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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