This project was funded by the European Union’s Rights,
Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020)
Supporting Wellbeing and Integration of Transgender victims in Care environments with Holistic approach
31st March: Trans Day of Visibility
Even today, the transgender and intersex community often suffers from stigma or prejudice in health centers. For this and more reasons, the Trans Day of Visibility takes place on March 31st to celebrate trans and non-binary people and raise awareness [...]
SWITCH Workshop: where synergies happened
Last 25th of February 2022 took place the SWITCH Barcelona Workshop. Palau Robert was the place to host the event and presential places were sold out. In order to cover people from all over the world, online places were also [...]
Training in Lloret de Mar
On May 19, 2022, in cooperation with the Department of Equality of the Lloret de Mar City Council, a training was organized for health, police, tourism personnel and people who work in contact with trans people in the territory. The [...]
Training in Barcelona: Self-knowledge through image and applied prosociality
On February 26 and 27, 2022, a training session was held in Castell d'Aro, Catalonia (Spain) aimed at sodium-health personnel and trans people. In the training, the SWITCH TRANS LAB team led a training aimed at health personnel, offering self-knowledge [...]
LAST MEETING OF PARTNERS IN SALERNO
On April 27, 28 and 29, 2022, the partners of the SWITCH project met in SALERNO - Italy to finalize the project activities and evaluate their results. At the event, the partners shared impressions and compared successful intervention experiences. The [...]
Presentation of the SWITCH PROJECT: Regional Health Authority of Campania
The presentation of the SWITCH PROJECT will occur in the Regional group on Gender Medicine organized by the Regional Health Authority of Campania in southern Italy. Since transgender people's assistance is a fundamental topic in gender medicine, the health experts [...]
Hospital Sant’Anna e San Sebastiano of Caserta, new associated partner
The hospital Sant’Anna e San Sebastiano of Caserta became the new SWITCH project associated partner to implement equity into the health practices. The hospital management wants to increase their health professionals' competency in assisting transgender patients respectfully and compassionately. The [...]
Connecting with Trans people * Good practices in the field of health.
We were visited by Lina Fabiana Mulero, a trans * rights activist. Collaborating lecturer in the optional subject “Training in gender diversity: trans people, fourth year of the Degree in Medicine at the University of Barcelona. She is professional in [...]
SWITCH in Lloret de Mar
The last face-to-face event of the SWITCH BARCELONA project will be held on May 19 in the city of Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain. The obje ctive is to work with socio-health professionals and public officials in the territory [...]