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Trans Health Card

Trans Health Card: How to use: 1. Download and print the Trans Health Card, or ... 2. Pick up a blank Card at ACT or other partnering locations. 3. Input the information you wish to share with your care providers. 4. Fold the card like an accordion. 5. Present your Trans Health Card along with your Ontario Health Card when accessing healthcare services.

Trans Health Card: "45% [of respondents in Ontario] reported having one or more unmet healthcare needs in the past year." Because they were trans or non-binary, 12% had avoided going to the emergency room in the past year, despite needing care." From the Trans Pulse Canada Team, Health and health care access for trans and non-binary people in Canada. 2020-03-10.

Trans Health Card: "Despite Canada's universal health care system, transgender (trans) and non-binary people experience challenges in accessing primary, emergency, and gender-affirming health care." From The Trans PULSE Canada Team. Health and health care access for trans and non-binary people in Canada. 2020-03-10.

Trans Health Card: Refer to a service user: 1. If a service user indicates they are trans, non-binary, or gender non-conforming, offer to them a Trans Health Card. 2. Introduce the Trans Health Card as a tool to help communicate key identity markers and gender-specific health information to service providers and administrators. 3. Encourage them to fill in the information they feel comfortable sharing with others. 4. Instruct them to present the Trans Health Card whenever they use their Ontario Health Card.

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Trans Health Bracelet

Text: Introducing the Trans Triage Bracelet. Photo: The triage bracelet being modeled, with "SAM" written on the "my name" space.

Text: Trans Triage Bracelet. "Despite Canada's universal health care system, transgender (trans) and non-binary people experience challenges in accessing primary, emergency, and gender-affirming health care." From The Trans PULSE Canada Team. Health and health care access for trans and non-binary people in Canada. 2020-03-10.

Text: Trans Triage Bracelet. "45% [of respondents in Ontario] reported having one or more unmet healthcare needs in the past year." Because they were trans or non-binary, 12% had avoided going to the emergency room in the past year, despite needing care." From the Trans Pulse Canada Team, Health and health care access for trans and non-binary people in Canada. 2020-03-10.

Text: Introducing the Trans Triage Bracelet. Photo: The triage bracelet being modeled, with "he/they" written on the pronoun space and "trans masc" written on the "my gender" space.

Text: Trans Triage Bracelet. A tool to facilitate affirming conversations between gender-diverse patients and their health care providers.

Text: Trans Triage Bracelet. How to use: 1. Download and print the Trans Health Card, or ... 2. Pick up a blank Card at ACT or other partnering locations. 3. Input the information you wish to share with your care providers. 4. Fold the card like an accordion. 5. Present your Trans Health Card along with your Ontario Health Card when accessing healthcare services.

Text: Trans Triage Bracelet. Refer to a service user: 1. If a service user indicates they are trans, non-binary, or gender non-conforming, offer to them a Trans Health Card. 2. Introduce the Trans Health Card as a tool to help communicate key identity markers and gender-specific health information to service providers and administrators. 3. Encourage them to fill in the information they feel comfortable sharing with others. 4. Instruct them to present the Trans Health Card whenever they use their Ontario Health Card.

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