Promoting healthy and positive outcomes for people born with a variation in sex characteristics (VSC)
Kia ora, nau mai, haere mai, welcome.
This website is a collaboration between people with lived experience, health professionals and researchers who are wanting to provide support to parents and whanau who have a child with a VSC. It is an information hub providing a balanced perspective for all Kiwis. We want to support healthy and happy lives by providing information from those with lived experience, health care providers and researchers that supports that supports human rights framework.
We have three areas of focus:
VSC Guide
Navigating health care
decision making.
Resources & Supports
Useful links and contacts to help you be informed and feel connected.
Our Stories
A place for parents and whānau
to share their experiences.
*This document was developed in collaboration with Intersex Aotearoa (formerly Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand ITANZ)
and Wellington Hospital Department of Paediatric and Child Health and the University of Otago.
Funding provided by Lotteries Grant Board and the University of Otago.