This webinar aims to empower GPs with knowledge on how to consult transgender or gender diverse patients who are seeking hormone therapy to transition and affirm their gender.
Presenters:
Dr Haris Noor, a GP at Bendigo Community Health Services whose special interests include men’s health, LGBTQI+ health and transgender medicine. Dr Noor helps run the Men’s Health Clinic and Gender Clinic at Bendigo Community Health Services.
Dr Lisa Watson has been a GP for 46 years mainly working in rural and remote regions including almost 3 years in Antarctica. Lisa was the first GP and second medical practitioner to transition in Australia. She currently works at Gateway Health in Wodonga.
Learning outcomes:
• Outline diagnostic criteria for gender incongruence and the differential diagnoses.
• Outline the Informed Consent Model of Care which places GPs central to gender care.
• Develop competency in gender history-taking, mental health assessment, and medical assessment.
• Describe gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) and other treatments for transitioning.
• Describe medico-legal aspects of GAHT in adolescents and adults.
