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Your health matters. On this page, you'll find a wide range of resources covering sexual, mental, physical, and social health, as well as harm reduction and specific support for trans and non-binary health.
Sexual Health Resources
It can be hard to find accurate, up-to-date, and culturally sensitive sexual health information for queer and trans folks. All of the information you read here has been developed by local queer and trans folks, many of whom have significant experience in the area of sexual health, either as healthcare providers or community health workers.
Mental Health Resources
Minority populations, like queer and trans folk, have been shown to experience negative mental health outcomes at significantly higher rates than the general population. In this section, we cover a range of mental health topics which are of particular relevance to the queer and trans community.
Physical Health Resources
You only get one body. So, it’s really important that you take care of it. In our physical health section, we cover a range of topics related to the health of your physical body.
Harm Reduction Resources
Substance use can impact queer and trans individuals in unique ways, often leading to increased vulnerability and specific challenges. In this section, we explore harm reduction strategies and resources tailored to substance use within the queer and trans community.
Trans and Nonbinary Health Resources
Transgender and non-binary individuals face unique challenges surrounding their health and well-being. We’ve partnered with the Trans Wellness Initiative to help make trans and non-binary health information more accessible from our page.
Check out our zine on how to access medical gender-affirming care in Alberta for adults.
Social Health and Queer Identity Resources
Social health refers to someone’s health as it relates to how they get along with others, whether or not they have a support system, and whether or not society provides them with accessible opportunities to meet their basic needs and experience positive health and well-being. In this section, we cover a range of topics related to social health, with specific attention to how our identities as queer people shape our health.
Social relationships, such as friendships, are important to your health and quality of life. A great deal of evidence has demonstrated how the presence, absence, and quality of social relationships can affect a person’s health.
Many of the community members QTHC serves experience challenges accessing health information, resources, and services integral to their health and well-being because of institutional barriers. These barriers exclude marginalized folks and are created by systemic racism, xenophobia, ableism, settler-colonialism, cissexism, transphobia, heterosexism, and homophobia. This dynamic can seriously threaten the health and well-being of individuals and their communities.
For many of us, our ancestors settled these territories and occupied them alongside the Indigenous nations who have called this place home for millennia. Our ability to form communities on these lands is due in part to the goodwill of Indigenous peoples who were here first. However, the presence of Canada and the invitation of settlers disrupted many of their traditional practices and uprooted their sovereignty.