Posts tagged Medicare

This Thursday and Saturday, BreastScreen Victoria is providing free LGBTI specific mammogram sessions to women and trans and gender diverse people over the age of …

“Parents were telling us about difficulties they’d had with Centrelink and Medicare, so we surveyed them about those experiences and put together this report.”

The Australian Christian Lobby’s state branch decried the proposal, saying taxpayers should not fund surgeries that advocates say are “life-changing” and sometimes “life-saving”.

The men who have given birth are presumably trans men who have retained the relevant reproductive organs.

The clinic’s staff identify and have extensive experience working with the LGBTI community.

IT’S now been 30 years since panic about AIDS culminated in a three-year-old girl with HIV being driven from her NSW Central Coast pre-school. Most Australians …

With state and federal budget cuts and changes to state approaches to health, working boys and girls are being hit hard, but they’re already marginalised and risking criminalisation — so who is going to stand in their corner? Janelle Fawkes writes.

THE LGBTI Health Alliance has issued a policy on the medical necessity of gender affirmation, making a statement on the rights and needs of trans*, …

New changes to Medicare announced by Health Minister Tanya Plibersek on Tuesday will remove gender discrimination from the service and provide much-needed improvements for transgender …