Educating trainee healthcare practitioners about transgender healthcare has been neglected globally, and nationally in Aotearoa New Zealand. Reasons for this oversight are only just beginning to come clear. Recent research reveals that healthcare practitioners often have a strong interest in learning about transgender healthcare but lack the knowledge and confidence to be able to teach this topic and cultivate the associated values of healthcare practitioners. There is also a lack of research about the most effective ways to teach trainee healthcare practitioners about relevant aspects of transgender healthcare. This issue is pressing, because transgender people frequently endure unmet mental and physical health needs directly related to a lack of access to welcoming, effective healthcare, even where unrelated to processes of gender transition. Aotearoa New Zealand thus seems at a critical juncture in increasing teacher education and student learning about the routine and specific healthcare needs of transgender people. We need to address this persistent educational gap, even out inequalities in health outcomes for transgender people and, in Aotearoa New Zealand, we can potentially lead the way in this field. We can: (1) commit specific curriculum space to transgender health issues; (2) research effective, specific teaching practice on this topic; (3) develop teacher practice around knowledge, confidence and values to deliver the best teaching for trainee healthcare practitioners. Teachers of healthcare practitioners need to set high standards for transgender healthcare education, and further research is needed to establish the best approach for such provision.

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克服新西兰 Aotearoa 跨性别医疗教育的障碍

在全球范围内对受训医疗保健从业者进行跨性别医疗保健教育一直被忽视，在新西兰 Aotearoa 全国也被忽视。这种疏忽的原因才刚刚开始变得清晰。最近的研究表明，医疗保健从业者通常对了解跨性别医疗保健有浓厚的兴趣，但缺乏能够教授这一主题和培养医疗保健从业者相关价值观的知识和信心。也缺乏关于向受训医疗保健从业者教授有关跨性别医疗保健相关方面的最有效方法的研究。这个问题很紧迫，因为跨性别者经常忍受未满足的心理和身体健康需求，这些需求与缺乏热情、有效的医疗保健直接相关，即使在与性别转变过程无关的情况下也是如此。因此，新西兰似乎处于加强教师教育和学生了解跨性别者常规和特定医疗保健需求的关键时刻。我们需要解决这一持续存在的教育差距，甚至解决跨性别者健康结果的不平等问题，在新西兰奥特阿罗，我们有可能在这一领域走在前列。我们可以：（1）为跨性别健康问题提供特定的课程空间；(2) 研究有效、具体的教学实践；(3) 围绕知识、信心和价值观培养教师实践，为受训医疗保健从业者提供最佳教学。医疗保健从业者的教师需要为跨性别医疗保健教育设定高标准，需要进一步研究以确定此类提供的最佳方法。