Rationale for creating an 'Inclusive' Women's Health Strategy
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From: Jan Rivers
Dear Ministry of Health,
The Women's Health Strategy currently being consulted is inclusive of transwomen (men who identify as women) and other men who identify as non-binary or who have other gender self-identifications. The rationale for this has been explained on the Tātou - Manatū Hauora's Digital Engagement Platform as being because 'trans women experience many of the same health issues as other women, and this can shape their health and wellbeing needs and outcomes'.
See https://tatou.health.govt.nz/achieving-p...
Please can you provide information used or generated by the Ministry over the past 2 1/2 years to include:
papers that explain the medical evidence of these 'same health issues'.
any lists of parallel health issues created by the Ministry to demonstrate the benefits of including male people as women in a women's health strategy,
academic and research resources used by the Ministry to identify these 'same health issues'
external engagement with New Zealand organisations such as feminist, rainbow/queer and transgender organisations who supplied information about the 'same health issues'.
Please provide any papers that addressed the 'counterfactual' ie any materials of the kind above that addressed concerns that including people in a women's health strategy by gender rather than sex raised risks for the effectiveness of the strategy such as women who do not identify as women being left out of the strategy or services intended for natal women having to be directed towards men who identify as women.
Yours faithfully,
Jan Rivers
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Kia ora Jan,
Please see attached the response to your request for Official information
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