Health committee  I just have one thing to mention around that. I think that in communities that are lacking the knowledge or the awareness.... I'm thinking about Doug's comment earlier about his friend who is the teacher who said, “Please don't talk about this.” In situations like that, I think

Health committee  As I believe Washington mentioned earlier, if you have an X on your ID, yet all the systems and services you're trying to access with that ID do not accept it, it does create further complications around accessing those systems and services.

Health committee  Sure, I can go first. I'll just speak from my own teachings and ideas around what two-spirit means for me, also recognizing that it's very different in different nations and depending on communities and what their knowledge is about two-spirit. For me, it's really rooted in indi

Health committee  Now we'd like to talk about gender-specific care and supports. Like people of all genders, trans and gender-diverse people need access to supportive primary care and other basic health services. This access can be improved by training and supporting the existing system of care to

Health committee  I'm Quinn Bennett, lead for peer and community support networks with Trans Care BC. I'm also from the ancestral lands of my people, the Mi'kmaq on the west coast of Newfoundland, and I'm a trans and two-spirit person living in B.C.

Health committee  We're often asked how many people are trans. This is difficult to estimate. However, prevalence estimates continue to rise. As Jack mentioned earlier, 12% of millennials identify as trans or non-binary based on a U.S. survey. Trans Care BC uses a prevalence rate of 1% to 3%, with