Ep. 4 - Maternity - We Need To Talk About Trans Health Inequality
Channel: Trans Health Inequality
Date: 03/10/2022

What does it mean to be a trans parent? How can maternity services be more inclusive of trans masculine birthing parents? And what’s all this about “chestfeeding”?

Welcome back! This is the fourth and final part of this series of films covering the shortcomings in the way that UK healthcare professionals care for our trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse patients. It is the culmination of a year-long research, development and engagement effort undertaken as part of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust’s Chief Nurse Fellowship program, with financial and organisational support from the Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Integrated Care System’s Academy. 

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