Professional Association for Transgender Health South Africa

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PATHSA is an interdisciplinary health professional organisation working to promote the health, wellbeing and self-actualisation of trans and gender diverse people.

PATHSA CPD | Tues, 26 May | 7–8pmThe Cost of Being Made to Wait: Trans Healthcare and Justice in South Africa - Recognit...
20/05/2026

PATHSA CPD | Tues, 26 May | 7–8pm

The Cost of Being Made to Wait: Trans Healthcare and Justice in South Africa - Recognition Delayed, Healthcare Denied

In 2026, many trans South Africans are still forced to fight for healthcare, dignity, and legal recognition that should never have been delayed.

This talk explores how discrimination, blocked access to services, and a shifting global activism landscape shape the everyday realities of trans and gender-diverse people. Waiting lists, gatekeeping, legal delays, and institutional barriers are not simply administrative challenges - they have direct consequences for health, safety, wellbeing, and survival.

The session will examine the human cost of exclusion and the ongoing activism needed to secure equitable, affirming healthcare and justice in South Africa and beyond.

Speaker: Lee-Anne Walker

🔒 Members only
🔗 Access link via PATHSA’s Mighty Network

PATHSA CPD | Tuesday, 28 April | 19:00–20:00Voice and Communication Therapy Across the Gender SpectrumVoice and communic...
22/04/2026

PATHSA CPD | Tuesday, 28 April | 19:00–20:00

Voice and Communication Therapy Across the Gender Spectrum

Voice and communication are central to how people are recognised, understood, and affirmed in everyday interactions. This session will explore gender-affirming approaches to voice and communication therapy across diverse identities, with attention to clinical practice, embodiment, and the social contexts in which voice is heard and interpreted.

Speaker: Saskia Lilienfeld (they/she)

Saskia is a Cape Town-based Speech-Language Therapist and activist with a focus on person-centred, affirming care. A UCT graduate, they have worked in both South Africa and the UK, and previously led the Speech Therapy Department at Khayelitsha Hospital.

In 2021, Saskia established a private practice focusing on gender-affirming and neurodiversity-affirming voice and communication therapy. They provide services nationally through online care. Alongside their clinical work, Saskia is active in advocacy for trans communities and affirming healthcare.

Drawing on both professional expertise and lived experience as a non-binary person diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, Saskia’s work creates space for clients to explore voice, identity, and communication in ways that align with their sense of self.

🔒 Members only
🔗 Access via Mighty (link in bio)

PATHSA CPD | 31 March 2026 | 19:00–20:00This session will engage the role of human rights and intersectionality in shapi...
18/03/2026

PATHSA CPD | 31 March 2026 | 19:00–20:00

This session will engage the role of human rights and intersectionality in shaping affirmative psychological practice.

Speaker: Iva Žegura

Iva Žegura is a clinical psychologist and PhD candidate with over 20 years of experience at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče in Zagreb. Her work spans gestalt integrative therapy, cybernetics of psychotherapy, and sexual therapy. She holds academic appointments across psychology and medical faculties and contributes to training and supervision.

She has been instrumental in developing LGBTIQ+ affirmative practice and advancing legislative and healthcare frameworks for transgender and gender-diverse people in line with WPATH Standards of Care. She serves on the National List of Experts for the Health Care of Transgender People and is the current President of EPATH. She has authored and edited several scientific publications and books.

🔒 Members only
🔗 Access via Mighty (see link in bio)

PATHSA CPD | 31 March 2026 | 19:00–20:00This session will engage the role of human rights and intersectionality in shapi...
17/03/2026

PATHSA CPD | 31 March 2026 | 19:00–20:00

This session will engage the role of human rights and intersectionality in shaping affirmative psychological practice.

Speaker: Dr Iva Žegura

Dr Žegura is a clinical psychologist and PhD candidate with over 20 years of experience at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče in Zagreb. Her work spans gestalt integrative therapy, cybernetics of psychotherapy, and sexual therapy. She holds academic appointments across psychology and medical faculties and contributes to training and supervision.

She has been instrumental in developing LGBTIQ+ affirmative practice and advancing legislative and healthcare frameworks for transgender and gender-diverse people in line with WPATH Standards of Care. She serves on the National List of Experts for the Health Care of Transgender People and is the current President of EPATH. She has authored and edited several scientific publications and books.

🔒 Members only

🔗 Access via Mighty (link in bio)

PATHSA CPD | 24 February 2026 | 19:00–20:00Anti-Trans Narratives & Misinformation:A moderated panel discussion on impact...
17/02/2026

PATHSA CPD | 24 February 2026 | 19:00–20:00

Anti-Trans Narratives & Misinformation:
A moderated panel discussion on impact and response in gender-affirming healthcare

Anti-rights and anti-gender narratives are increasingly shaping the clinical landscape in South Africa. These coordinated misinformation strategies influence patient access to care, provider safety, institutional decision-making, and clinical confidence.

This moderated panel discussion will examine how these dynamics are affecting the provision of gender-affirming healthcare across settings. The conversation will address:

• How misinformation is circulating in South Africa
• The impact on patients, families, schools, workplaces, and communities
• Ethical duties, scope of practice, and informed consent as ongoing process
• Practical strategies for team-based response and patient support

Panel:
Jenna-Lee de Beer-Procter
Sakhile Msweli
Moderator: Pierre Brouard

🔒 Members only
🔗 Access via Mighty Network

New publication out today!A group of South African healthcare professionals and researchers working in gender-affirming ...
23/01/2026

New publication out today!

A group of South African healthcare professionals and researchers working in gender-affirming care have published a response in the South African Journal of Psychiatry titled: “Locally relevant, ethically urgent: Defending SASOP’s stance on transgender and non-binary youth.”

This article defends SASOP’s 2024 position statement on the care of transgender and non-binary young people, responding to recent critiques that rely on selective, ideologically driven sources from the Global North. The authors outline why South Africa’s approach must be grounded in local law, constitutional rights, ethical practice, and the realities of access to care.

Importantly, the paper highlights what is often ignored in these debates: the real crisis is not “over-provision” of care, but the widespread lack of access to any gender-affirming healthcare at all - especially for economically marginalised and rural youth.

🔗 Read the full article: https://sajp.org.za/index.php/sajp/article/view/2543/4286

Gender-Affirming Care: Clinical Decision-Making Under Scrutiny🗓 27 January 2026⏰ 7:00–8:00pm (SAST)🔒 PATHSA members only...
21/01/2026

Gender-Affirming Care: Clinical Decision-Making Under Scrutiny

🗓 27 January 2026
⏰ 7:00–8:00pm (SAST)
🔒 PATHSA members only
📍 Access via the Mighty Network

This CPD session explores how clinical decision-making in gender-affirming care is being reshaped under increasing scrutiny, backlash, and uncertainty. Drawing on qualitative research with trans people and healthcare providers in South Africa, the talk examines how concepts like proof, capacity, readiness, and risk come to structure care - often in ways that quietly delay or constrain it.

The session will focus on:
- How scrutiny alters clinical judgement, even when no complaint or regulator is present
- The difference between proportionate assessment and defensive over-justification
- What it means to stay ethically and relationally grounded in contested conditions
- Practical ways of holding uncertainty without stalling care

This is a reflective, practice-focused session for clinicians navigating gender-affirming care in real-world settings.

About the presenter
Presented by Jenna-Lee de Beer-Procter (they/them), a clinical psychologist and Vice Chair of PATHSA. Jen has recently submitted their PhD dissertation examining gender-affirming care in South Africa under conditions of contestation, developing a theory of “staying in the work” - how care continues when authority, legitimacy, and decision-making are persistently under review.

1 Day to Go!The PATHSA Symposium 2025 is happening tomorrow!🔍 Theme: Trans Rights in TransitionThe programme includes pr...
28/11/2025

1 Day to Go!
The PATHSA Symposium 2025 is happening tomorrow!

🔍 Theme: Trans Rights in Transition
The programme includes presentations on trans refugees, masculinities, public health integration, group psychotherapy, social work practice, and a keynote on evangelical anti-rights movements in trans health .

There’s still time to register - we look forward to seeing you there!

📅 Saturday, 29 November

🕗 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM SAST

📍 Online | Join via Zoom (link shared after registration)

PATHSA members join via Mighty Network

🟣 KEYNOTE SPOTLIGHTWe’re honoured to welcome Pontsho Pilane as keynote speaker at the PATHSA Symposium 2025.📣 The Politi...
28/11/2025

🟣 KEYNOTE SPOTLIGHT
We’re honoured to welcome Pontsho Pilane as keynote speaker at the PATHSA Symposium 2025.

📣 The Politics of Faith and the Right to Care:
Confronting Evangelical Anti-Rights Movements in Trans Health

Pontsho’s keynote will explore how evangelical organising shapes resistance to gender-affirming care and how health professionals, advocates, and communities can respond. Drawing on her expertise in health journalism and social justice, this talk will examine the intersections of religion, politics, and access to care in the South African context.

📅 Saturday, 29 November

🕗 8:00–12:00

🔗 Open to all | Register via the link in bio

26/11/2025

PATHSA stands with trans and gender-diverse young people in Aotearoa New Zealand following the government’s decision to ban new prescriptions of puberty blockers. This policy denies youth access to safe, evidence-based care and ignores decades of clinical expertise, international research, and the lived realities of affected young people and their families.

Puberty blockers are a well-established medical intervention used safely across paediatric healthcare. Restricting access does not change who young people are - it only increases distress, dysphoria, and the risk of turning to unsafe alternatives.

As anti-gender movements escalate globally, decisions like this create avoidable harm, politicise essential healthcare, and set dangerous precedents for countries where access is already fragile.

PATHSA stands firmly in solidarity with the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) and calls for the immediate reversal of this discriminatory ban. Trans youth deserve autonomy, dignity and developmentally appropriate care - everywhere.

See link in bio for full statement.

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