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Trans health clinic mixed success, as patients wait for gender-affirming hormones

The clinic in Ballarat was meant to be the first transgender health point of contact in regional Victoria. (ABC Ballarat: Rio Davis)

A Victorian government-funded transgender health clinic, touted as being a one-stop shop for trans and gender-diverse people accessing health care, has not initiated prescriptions of gender-affirming hormones to patients in the four years since opening.

The state government set up two clinics in April 2019 — one in Ballarat and the other in Preston, a suburb of Melbourne — to address several key problems facing trans health including access and lengthy wait times.

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