EMHS has opened Western Australia’s first gender diversity service (GDS) for transitioning adults

EMHS has opened Western Australia’s first gender diversity service (GDS) for transitioning adults.

The multi-disciplinary service provides initial assessment and/or hormone therapy for individuals over the age of 18 years only.

The service provides much needed help to an extremely vulnerable patient group.

The GDS is staffed by a sexual health physician, endocrinologist, clinical psychologist, speech therapist, clinical nurse consultant and clerk.

A psychiatrist has been recruited to the service and will join the team shortly.

Although RPH had previously seen transitioning patients through its Sexual Health Clinic, the GDS was now providing a dedicated and formalised service that would be open to transitioning patients throughout Western Australia.

The EMHS new service does not offer surgical procedures because gender reassignment surgery is not available in the public health system.