Hamilton Trans Health Coalition is a group of health care providers, advocates, and community members working together to increase the capacity of Hamilton’s primary health care system to deliver high-quality gender-affirming healthcare to transgender, gender-diverse, and non-binary people who live, learn, work, and play in Hamilton.

The Coalition arose to build Hamilton’s capacity to deliver good quality health care to trans and gender-diverse Hamiltonians, most of whom were travelling to other cities to access transitioning care, hormone therapy, and surgical referrals. On August 31st, 2016 a founding group of concerned providers and advocates began the coalition to address these needs.

HTHC includes in its membership family physicians, pediatricians, social workers, pharmacists, nurses, and psychotherapists. Practitioners work from their own practices and come together to share their learning, solve problems, and collaborate on education and capacity-building.

HTHC helps people navigate health care systems and issues, provides education workshops on a variety of trans-related issues for health care providers and works with provincial and national partners to identify community needs and respond to anti-trans organizing.

We are committed to increasing capacity for, and access to, gender-affirming care for all trans, non-binary, and gender diverse people who wish to access it. Join us.