2SLGBTQIA+ Health

• Nova Scotia Health prideHealth Navigation Services

  The prideHealth navigator works with individuals and groups to help members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community connect with services within the Health System and community resources.
• prideHealth (rack card)

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  WX85-1634 -- prideHealth (2025) -- French version: FF85-2392 -- Arabic version: AR85-2391
• Fierté-Santé (rack card)

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  FF85-2392 -- prideHealth (2025) -- English version: WX85-1634 -- Arabic version: AR85-2391
• برايد هيلث (prideHealth) - rack card

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  AR85-2391 -- prideHealth (2025) -- English version: WX85-1634 -- French version: FF85-2392

• Positive Space [Poster]

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• How to Access Pronoun Stickers - for staff

  If your site and/or site contact is not listed in the above document, please contact prideHealth@nshealth.ca.
• IWK Health and prideHealth Pronoun Poster

  For display in common patient and staff areas and in admin spaces.
• Meeting Diverse Patient Needs: Using pronouns and gender-inclusive language

  Nova Scotia Health, 2022
• Nova Scotia Health prideHealth Pronoun Poster

  For display in common patient and staff areas and in admin spaces.
• Nova Scotia Health prideHealth Pronoun Poster

  French version: For display in common patient and staff areas and in admin spaces.
• Pronoun Information

  This guide from prideHealth gives tips and best practices on using correct pronouns with patients and colleagues as a meaningful, important, and crucial way of showing respect.
• Pronoms [guide en français]
• الضمائر [Pronouns]

• About Bi and Pansexual Health
• About Gay Health
• About Lesbian Health
• About Non-Binary Health
• About Trans Men Health
• About Trans Women Health
• Let's Get Protected! [brochure in English]

  Vaccine information for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, concerning HPV, MPox, Influenza, and COVID-19.
  (2023)
• Protégeons-nous! [guide en français]

  Les informations pour la communauté 2SLGBTQIA+ concernant VPH, la variole du singe, la grippe, et la COVID-19.
  (2023)

• Gender Inclusive Language for Forms, Research, Policy, Documentation

  For reference in developing Nova Scotia Health / IWK Health forms, policy, research, and documentation.
  prideHealth, September 2022

• 2SLGBTQ+ Student Supports at Nova Scotia Community College

  Advisors help you access resources and make connections on-campus and off, so that you feel welcomed and empowered to succeed.
• 2SLGBTQIA+ Health-care Supports at the University of King’s College.
• 2SLGBTQIA+ Resources at Saint Mary's University

  A list of supports and resources available both within SMU and the broader Halifax community, for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community at SMU.
• Acadia Pride

  Aimed at providing an outlet for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gendered, two-spirited, and queer (LGBT2IQ) individuals, as well as friends, and allies. The group provides support for students, staff, and faculty dealing with issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
• Cape Breton University's Students' Union Pride & Ally Centre

  Open to students who are looking for a safe and inclusive space on campus. The Centre is operated by a student coordinator and volunteers who assist to make the centre as welcoming as possible.
• Dalhousie 2SLGBTQ+ Advisor

  The 2SLGBTQ+ Advisor (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and any non-normative identities) supports students at Dalhousie and University of Kings College.
• Dalhousie University School of Nursing: Community of Two‑Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (2SLGBTQ) Students in Nursing (2SLGBTQSN)

  Student Equity Coalition
• Dalhousie University Student Health & Wellness 2SLGBTQ+ Services

  Healthcare professionals at the Student Health & Wellness Centre in Halifax are trained to support 2SLGBTQ+ health needs and provide inclusive primary and mental health care.
• Gender & Sexual Diversity Advising at St. Francis Xavier University

  StFX offers 2SLGBTQIA+ students the service of an advisor to encourage, guide, and advocate on their behalf in order to support them succeeding both academically and socially.
• MSVUSU Pride Centre

  The Pride Centre is run by the Mount Saint Vincent University Students' Union. The centre is run by and for 2SLGBTQIA+ members of the MSVU community and its allies.

• Asexuality and Health

  Resources from "Re:searching for 2SLGBTQA+ Health" with the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
• BRAZEN: Trans Women's Safer Sex Guide

  Brazen 2.0 is a safer sex guide for trans women, available to download in English and French.
• Do Ask, Do Tell: Talking to your health care provider about being LGBTQ

  Brochure from the National LGBT Health Education Center.
• GHB awareness resources

  Resources for the safer use of GHB/GBL and BDO drugs from the Gay Men's Sexual Health Alliance.
• Re:searching for 2SLGBTQA+ Health

  A team of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, Two-Spirit, and queer (LGBTQ2S+) and ally researchers at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, who focus on understanding how 2SLGBTQA+ people experience physical and emotional (mental) health, and how they access health services.
• Trans PULSE Canada

  A national community-based survey of the health and well-being of trans and non-binary people in Canada.
• Two-Spirit Health Resource List

  Range of resources including videos, books, reports, and websites related to two-spirit health produced by National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH).

• Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights

  Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights is a progressive, pro-choice charitable organization committed to advancing and upholding sexual and reproductive health and rights in Canada and globally.
  [Search for service providers in your province]
  [Sexual Health Week - annually in February]
• Cultural Competence in the Care of LGBTQ Patients

  Bass, B., & Nagy, H. (2023). StatPearls Publishing.
• Egale Canada

  A national 2SLGBTQI human rights organization. Their goal is to advance equality, diversity, education and justice.
• GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality

  Ensuring equality in healthcare for LGBTQ+ individuals and health care professionals since 1981.
  [10 things Lesbians Should Discuss with Their Healthcare Provider]
  [10 Things Gay Men Should Discuss with their Healthcare Provider]
  [10 Things Bisexual People Should Discuss with their Healthcare Provider]
  [10 Things Transgender People Should Discuss with their Healthcare Provider]
• InterACT: Advocates for intersex youth

  interACT works to empower intersex youth and advance the rights of all people with innate variations in their physical sex characteristics through advocacy, public engagement and community connection. (Formerly The Intersex Society of North America).
• Native Youth Sexual Health Network

  An organization by and for Indigenous youth that addresses issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout Canada and the United States.
• Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project

  Established in 1995, NSRAP has strived to provide a coherent voice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirited, transsexual, transgender, and queer people throughout Nova Scotia. The organization is not active at this time.
• PFLAG Canada

  A national organization that helps Canadians with issues of sexual orientation, gender identity & gender expression. There are several PFLAG groups in Nova Scotia.
• Providing Inclusive Services and Care for LGBT People

  A guide for health care staff from the National LGBT Health Education Center.

• Gale Health and Wellness

  Find information on a variety of topics including fitness, pregnancy, diseases, and prescription drugs.
• Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine

  Discover periodicals and reference book content supporting research in health studies.