Resources

Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski

Better Sex Through Mindfulness - Lori Brotto

Contemporary Male Sexuality: Confronting Myths and Promoting Change - Barry McCarthy and Emily McCarthy

Trans Sex - Lucie Fielding

Mating In Captivity - Esther Perel

A State of Affairs - Esther Perel

Mind the Gap - Karen Gurney

Woman Cancer Sex - Anne Katz

Men Cancer Sex - Anne Katz

Sex, Intimacy and Cancer - Canadian Cancer Society

When Sex Hurts - Andrew Goldstein, Caroline Pukall, Irwin Goldstein & Jill Krapf

Come Together - Emily Nagoski

Eli Harwood - Securely Attached

Sue Johnson - Hold Me Tight

Alberta Primary Care Pathway

The best community support group is Skipping Stone Foundation in Calgary. I fully endorse them as an organization which is committed to helping trans and gender diverse youth and adults and their families.

Hormone therapy

• Rainbow Health Ontario Training Session: Trans and Gender Diverse Primary Care

• Endocrine Society Gender Dysphoria/Gender Incongruence Guideline Resources (hyperlink:

• Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline

• Clinical education resources, point of care tools, patient resources

• Rainbow Health Ontario Training Session: Transition-Related Surgeries - planning, referral, and care,

• Sherbourne Health/Rainbow Health Ontario TRS Summary Sheets,

• Women’s College Hospital TRS Program,

• Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS) Montreal,

• Sherbourne Health Centre Acute Respite Care (ARC) Post-Operative TRS Program,

• Trans Care BC - Gender Affirming Surgeries,

• Client resources: TRS FAQ,

• Client resources: Sherbourne Health Centre Surgical Support Groups for Community Members,

• Rainbow Health Ontario - Trans Health Connection Mentorship call

• E-consult services: Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)

• E-consult services: Champlain LHIN eConsult Services

• TransLine: Transgender Medical Consultation Service,

• World professional association for transgenger health (WPATH)

• Download a free copy of the most recent version of the Standards of Care
• Biennial conferences on Transgender Health
• Become a member to sign up for listserv discussions and receive the quarterly ‘International Journal of Transgenderism’

• Canadian professional association for transgenger health (CPATH)
• Membership, Biennial conferences
• PROJECT ECHO: University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• ECHO Ontario Trans and Gender Diverse Healthcare – Supporting clients with medical and surgical transition,

• University of Toronto, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ‘The Hub’ online study guide, Transgender Health,

• UCSF Centre of Excellence for Transgender Health,

• Guidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People: 2nd Edition

• Learning Centre (online learning, guides, reports, and fact sheets)

• Trans Care BC,

• Resources on Trans Basics, Care & Support, Hormones, Surgery, and Children and Youth
• Gender-affirming Care for Trans, Two-Spirit, and Gender Diverse Patients in BC: A Primary Care Toolkit,