We are a non-profit coalition of health care providers, advocates, and community members working to increase the capacity of health systems in Hamilton, Ontario to meet the needs of trans, gender-diverse, and non-binary people.
We invite you to learn more, support our work, join us, provide gender-affirming care, expand gender-affirming care in your practice or organization, and advocate for access to gender-affirming care in your community.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility to everyone who celebrates!
TDOV was created by Rachel Crandall-Crocker to celebrate trans life and bring trans communities together. In 2023, she explained: “I created the Transgender Day of
Statement on Gender-Affirming Care Ban in Alberta
Last week, Alberta passed Canada’s first gender-affirming care ban, ignoring the medical consensus, evidence, and the trans youth and their families who begged them not to do this. We condemn these laws.
Trans Day of Remembrance 2024
We mourn those who we have lost to anti-trans violence, whether that violence was enacted by individuals or by policies and institutions.
Statement on Incoming Gender-Affirming Care Ban in Alberta
Recently, the government of Alberta recommitted to banning and restricting gender-affirming care for Albertan trans youth, along with passing other anti-trans legislation impacting both education
New Study: access to mental health and addictions care
People from Hamilton who identify as Indigenous and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ and have feedback about mental health services at St. Joe’s can join this study and will
IDAHOBIT 2024: Everyone deserves to feel safe and accepted
Anti-trans policy and legislative shifts highlight the pervasiveness of anti-trans attacks on safety, bodily autonomy, and healthcare access. This is not a faraway problem impacting people we do not know and will never meet.
Hamilton Trans Health Coalition has received funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada, MLSE Foundation, United Way Halton & Hamilton, the City of Hamilton Community Enrichment Fund, and individuals, artists, student groups, and businesses in support of a gender-affirming primary health system in Hamilton.