What Gender Care Clinic can help with
Gender Care Clinic provides gender-affirming specialist healthcare, advice and support for gender diverse people of all ages across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Asking a question does not decide anything. It does not commit you to treatment, and it does not confirm that a particular treatment is right or available for you.
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Topics we can help with
Gender-affirming hormone therapy is one of the things the Gender Care Clinic provides. You can get in touch to ask about it without a referral from another healthcare provider.
What happens next, and whether hormone therapy is suitable for you, is something to talk through with the clinic rather than decide from a website.
People who are questioning their gender can come to the clinic for support. So can people who are not seeking medical care or surgery.
You do not have to want medical treatment to make an appointment, and you do not have to arrive with a decision already made.
The clinic can provide referrals for a number of gender-affirming surgeries. The surgeries themselves are carried out by a surgical service, not at the clinic.
Get in touch to talk about a referral and the questions you would like to ask.
More topics we can help with
Within Hawke's Bay, you can access funded mental health support.
All gender reassignment surgery is carried out by the gender-affirming genital surgery team, based in Wellington. The website for more information on the surgeries available can be found at this site: Health NZ information on gender-affirming genital surgery
We are able to prescribe puberty blocking medication for those wanting to suppress puberty.
If you reside within Hawke's Bay, we can refer you to the Hawke's Bay Hospital for top (chest masculinisation) surgery. If you reside outside of Hawke's Bay, we will help you to find the appropriate service in your region.
Please contact us if you have questions about these or other services. Call or text 021 029 37574.
What the clinic does not do
These are the limits of the service, so you know when to look somewhere else.
The clinic refers for gender-affirming surgeries. It does not perform surgery.
The clinic is not an emergency service. In an emergency, call 111.
The website does not give medical advice. Anything specific to you is a conversation with the clinic.
Questions to ask when you call or text
- Costs and fees.
- How long you may wait for an appointment.
- Age rules or eligibility for any individual treatment.
Ready to get in touch?
You can refer yourself. A referral from another healthcare provider is not needed.
