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WoCo Health and Services Directory

General Practitioners

Laura Moryosef

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Annandale GP 34C Taylor Street Annandale NSW 2038 (02) 9571 1188 Webite: annandalegp.com.au Experience with supporting: PoC Cost: Bulk bill available for students and kids - mental health, antidepressants - sexual health, frequent STI/pregnancy tests - good referrals to psychologists, psychiatrists

Catherine Lyons

Glebe Family Medical Practice 114 Glebe Point Road Glebe 02 9660 8399 Website: gfmp.com.au Transhub profile: transhub.org.au/tgd-doc-list/ dr-catherine-lyons Experience with supporting: LGBTQIA+, survivors Cost: Bulk bills with a healthcare card 30 minute consultation: $125 (private) $75.05 (Medicare) 45 minute consultation: $155 (private) $110 (Medicare) - Signs off on gender marker change applications without requiring examination - Has undertaken TGD awareness training - Starts hormones using informed consent - Manages hormones using informed consent

Psychologist

Rachel Fabien

802/9-13 Bronte Rd, Bondi Junction 0404 502 767 Website: rachelfabiantherapy.com Experience with supporting: LGBTIQA+, PoC Cost: Half hour phone sessions are also available at a reduced rate. Offers a discount for young people who are lower income earners e.g. example living financially independently and a student/jobseeker/DSP/trainee or part-time. - Extensive experience in practice considerations such as trauma, violence, disability, acute and chronic mental health conditions, grief and loss, social marginalisation, substance misuse, sexuality, gender identity, cultural diversity and homelessness

Sexual Health Clinic

T150 - Albion Street Centre Sexual Health Clinic

Level 3, 150 Albion St, Surry Hills 02 9332 9600 Website: thealbioncentre.org.au/clinical-services/ t150 Experience with supporting: LGBTIQA+ Cost: Service is free and available for people with or without a Medicare card - HIV, sexual health and blood born virus (such as hepatitis) screening, HIV point of care testing - Immediate linkage and referral to HIV and Hepatitis C management and treatment within the service. - Treatment of any diagnosed STIs - Education on and provision of HIV PrEP and PEP - Vaccinations for Hep A and B - Cervical screening for anyone with a cervix - Safer injecting education - Health education on sexual health with a TGD specific focus - Transgender specific reproduction advice - Blood monitoring (such as hormone levels)

Women’s Homelessness Service

Women and Girls Emergency Centre (WAGEC)

174 Redfern Street, Redfern. 9319 4088 Website: wagec.org.au Experience with supporting: LGBTIQA+, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, survivors, Indigenous people, PoC, Immigrants or refugees Cost: No cost Access to interpreter services - Women’s homelessness service providers emergency accommodation in crisis refugee and supports women to find suitable housing through case management. - A service for women who are or are at risk of homelessness. Women for WAGEC is anyone who feels comfortable identifying with that label - WAGEC actively and openly support trans women

Other therapies

Everybody Massage

Kira Magee — Wangal land/Croydon Instagram:@every.body.massage Website: everybodymassageclinic.com Cost:$100 (1 hour) $135 (90 min), free and subsidised treatment available via a pay-it-forward system. Remedial massage, trauma-informed, queer and trans literate.

Groundings

(Spotify, Apple, web) Host Devyn Springer and guests talk the theory, organising and history around abolition, education, gentrification, anti-racism and anti-capitalism. Episode rec: “The Plurality of Abolitionism” (Jan 2 2021)

Beyond Prisons

(Spotify, Apple, web) Conversations on incarceration, prison abolition and transformative justice with those directly impacted by the system, activists, artists and scholars. Episode rec: “Abolition is a Horizon” (May 8 2019)

How to Survive the End of the World

(Transcript available) (Spotify, Apple, web) Sisters Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown on surviving the world we live in, apocalypse and community. Episode rec: “Reshaping Apocalypse” (Apr 24 2018)

She’s All Fat: A Body Positive Podcast

(Spotify, Apple, web) A fat-positivity podcast that centres marginalised fat bodies and pushes back against the body positive industrial-complex. Episode rec: “5.14 Fearing the Black Body with Evette Dionne” (Sep 9 2020)

Women on the Line

(Spotify, Apple, web) 3CR, a Melbourne-based community radio station, air a weekly national feminist current affairs program. Episode rec: “Safety for Who?: Abolitionist perspectives on criminalising coercive control” (Nov 16 2020)

The Red Nation Podcast

(Spotify, Apple, web) The Red Nation, an Indigenous/ Native resistance organisation, discusses left Indigenous perspectives, history and culture. Episode rec: “#WetsuwetenStrong w/ Karla Tait” (Feb 16 2020)

Millennials are Killing Capitalism

(Spotify, Apple, web) Discussions around radical politics, radical organising and decolonisation. Episode rec: “Episode 26: Mariame Kaba — You Have Right to Disrupt” (Dec 12 2018)”

Pride in Protest

(Spotify, Apple, web) Social justice issues through a local lens with Sydney-based activist collective, Pride in Protest. Episode rec: “Sex Work feat. Mish Pony” (Jun 17 2020)

Working Class History

(Transcript available) (Spotify, Apple, web) A series that looks in-depth into working class movements — of all sizes — around the world. Episode rec: “The Exotic Dancers Union” (March 13 2019)

Radio Skidrow (Soundcloud)

Community radio broadcasting out of inner-west Sydney, Radio Skidrow share important stories and histories on Indigenous justice, immigration, Bla(c)k music and emerging communities. Episode rec: “SURVIVAL GUIDE #1: Leave your Fragility at the Shore” (2019) WoCo members recommend podcasts and episodes that give them radical visions of the future.

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