Trans Health & Access platforms
Here's what the 2021 Canadian election parties are promising.NDP
- Work with the provinces to ensure equal access to gender-affirming surgery across the country, & that gender-affirming procedures & medication is covered by public health plans.
- Review & eliminate systemic barriers related to gender in the delivery of federal public services.
- Provide funding to support the creation & expansion of shelters for trans youth.
Green
- Negotiate the Canada Health Accord to prioritise access to gender-affirming health services.
- Listen to feedback on census questions.
- Ensure trans, non-binary, & Two Spirit people are able to alter their sex designation on all federally-issued documents, without undertaking surgeries.
- Require accessible facilities in all federal buildings, including gender-neutral washrooms & changing facilities.
Negotiate the Canada Health Accord to prioritize mental health and rehabilitation services, access to safe abortion services and access to gender-affirming health services such as hormones, blockers, and surgery.
— Be Daring., retrieved 2021-09-11
● Listen to feedback about the appropriate nature of new 2021 federal census questions attempting to capture data on trans and non-binary Canadians.
— Be Daring., retrieved 2021-09-11
● Ensure access to comprehensive sexual health care and gender affirming health care, including hormone treatments and blockers, and gender confirmation surgeries.
● Ensure that trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit people, without undertaking surgeries, are able to alter their sex designation on all federally-issued official documents, consistent with their gender identity.
● Ensure that the national census is designed to reflect the diversity of sex and gender identity and ask appropriate questions to ensure adequate, safe and effective data collection.
● Require accessible facilities in all federal buildings, including gender-neutral washrooms, changing facilities, etc. while also re-affirming trans, non-binary and Two Spirit people’s right to use whichever facilities with which they identify.
— Be Daring., retrieved 2021-09-11