LGBTIQA+ supports and services

Department of Health Services

LGBTIQA+ people access all parts of Tasmania’s health services. They may also seek specific services. 

• Mental Health Services
• Sexual Health Services
• Tasmanian Gender Service
• Youth Health Services

Community Services

• Working it Out – Tasmania’s gender, sexuality and intersex support and education service
• Equal Opportunity Tasmania
• Signpost – pathways to Tasmanian LGBTI inclusive organisations and services
• PFLAG - Parents and friends of the LGBTIQA+ community
• Red Thread and Tasmanian Council on AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Disease
• Rainbow Communities Tasmania
• Intersex Peer Support Australia
• Intersex Human Rights Australia
• TasPride
• LGBTI Health Alliance workforce resources
• LGBTIQA+ Health Australia
• Beyond Blue
• Being Proud
• MindOUT – national suicide prevention initiatives for LGBTIQ+ populations
• Transhub
• Transcend

Working It Out also has a list of specific resources and groups to help people stay connected statewide and online.

View Working It Out resources

Intersections

People may have more than one identity or aspects to their identity. This is called ‘intersection of identity’. For example, someone may be both Aboriginal and bisexual.  Or may identify as a trans-man living with a disability.  

Types of identity intersections

• Race, background, ethnicity and nationality
• Gender and gender identity
• Sex, sexual orientation and sex characteristics
• Colour
• Refugee or asylum seeker background
• Migration or visa status
• Language
• Faith or religion
• Ability
• Neurodiversity (for example, sociability, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions)
• Age
• Mental health
• Socioeconomic status (how much you earn)
• Housing status and geographic location (where you live and type of home)
• Medical record
• Criminal record

Resources supporting different identity intersections

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

• Black Rainbow 
• BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation  
• Yarns Heal 

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities

• AGMC – Australian LGBTIQ Multicultural Council 

Age specific resources 

• Silver Rainbow 
• The Aged Care Guide  
• ABC - Experience in aged care 
• Minus 18  
• Health of LGBTIQ+ elders (podcasts)
• Listening to LGBT seniors

People with disabilities 

• Working with LGBTIQA+ people with disabilities 
• The Full Spectrum: What's is like to be gay and autistic?
• Working it Out has an eLearning module – LGBTIQA+ Inclusive Practices in Disability Services

Women 

• Women’s Health Tasmania: She’s Out There’ podcast on sexual and reproductive health