u/Stonewall_Medical

The new AUSPath standards of care have made a note to use language like testosterone and oestradiol hormone therapies instead of masculinising and feminising hormones.

I've previously found masculinising and feminising useful descriptive words to use with patients and also found that my patients tend to use these words too. I can see however that non-binary or agender people might not necessarily identify with these words.

On the other hand I think masculinising and feminsing are more social descriptors consistent with gender as a social construct and testosterone and oestradiol based hormones feels very medicalising/pathologising to me.

I'd love to know what this community thinks.

I know there has been a lack of communication around this but Holdsworth House Brisbane is effectively closed now. Fiona Bisshop, Kate Evans and Graham Lister will work with Stonewall Windsor until we can set up a new premises (Stonewall Fortitude Valley).

Victoria Featherstone is going to work at Gender Health Australia instead of Holdsworth House but will still be working part-time only. Rhys Young is taking a break from clinical work to focus on teaching.

We are hopeful the owners of Holdsworth House Brisbane (a corporate entity called momentum) will send out details about this next week but we don't have any control over that.

Anyone wanting to make an appointment with Fiona, Kate or Graham can call Stonewall Windsor for now but please be patient and understanding that we are receiving a very large volume of calls at the moment.