Hi Everyone, Wanted to let you know of an additional recent publication on “Assessment of Health Conditions and Health Service Use Among Transgender Patients in Canada”. The study analyzes administrative health data of individuals living within 3 large cities in Ontariao to further demonstrate the need to improve the capacity to identify transgender individuals.Here is the link to the article https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2769915 Thanks, Marcy

Hi Everyone, Wanted to let you know of two recent open access publications on sex and gender: The first is our ‘A rapid review of gender, sex, and sexual orientation documentation in electronic health records’ , that has been part of this planning project and has informed the development of our action plan: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa158 The second is by Dr. Amédé Gogovor and colleagues on ‘Sex and gender analysis in knowledge translation interventions: challenges and solutions’ and looks at the current Canadian landscape of funding opportunities and challenges for knowledge translation projects that integrate sex and gender: https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-020-00625-6 Lau, F., Antonio, M., Davison, K., Queen, R., & Devor, A. (2020). A rapid review of gender, sex, and sexual orientation documentation in electronic health records. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Gogovor A, Mollayeva T, Etherington N, Colantonio A, Légaré F, on behalf of the GIKT Group. (2020). Sex and Gender Analysis in knowledge translation interventions: challenges and solutions. Health Research Policy and Systems. In press 2020 Thanks, Marcy

Hi Everyone, The summary notes and slide deck from our consultation session on September 22nd are now posted, along with full draft or our proposed action plan. We are looking for your feedback on this document, so encourage you to send your overall comments or track changes within the documents to either Francis (fylau@uvic.ca) or Marcy (mantonio@uvic.ca). Ideally, if you could send these to us by October 6th, as we plan to present the next draft of the action plan at the Infoway Sex and Gender Working Group meeting on October 13th. All three documents can be found under the Planning Project folder: • GSSO Action Plan - Full plan v2.2 • Consultation Session - 5 September 22-2020 - Slide Deck • Consultation Session 5 - Action Plan 22September2020 - Summary Notes Thanks, Marcy

Hi Everyone, A reminder that tomorrow we will be reviewing our action plan as part of the CIHR Planning Project tomorrow ‘Modernizing Sex and Gender Information Practices in Electronic Health Records'. One-time registration for public Zoom meetings is now required to protect the safety and security of our online communities. To register, please could go to https://infoway-inforoute.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqc-qhrj0qHdbaTzlYUrMKFcobWoiIPELl Once registered, you will receive an updated meeting link and password that can be used to access upcoming session(s). Callers-in will require a password, and meetings will not begin until the host joins. The meeting URL will posted in the Events Calendar: https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/collaboration/wg/sex-gender In preparation for the session, the planning project folder (https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/sex-gender/sgwg-planning-project) contains the following documents: 'GSSO Action Plan' provides a summary of our overall action plan and will be used to guide our discussion 'Consultation process' details the aim and timeline of our planning project. 'Information Letter' details the consent process and we ask you to review it prior to participating in the consultation Thank-you, Marcy On behalf of the Sex and Gender CIHR Planning Project: Francis Lau, Professor and Lead Researcher Marcy Antonio, PhD Candidate and Research Coordinator

Hi Everyone, Attached is the link the Summary Draft of our Proposed GSSO Action Plan: https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/sex-gender/sgwg-planning-project/3427-gsso-action-plan . We hope you can join us at our next Consultation Session that is being held on Sep 22nd, 2020 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET, when we will be seeking your feedback on the proposed action plan. If you are unable to attend the session, please feel free to send us your comments to Francis (fylau@uvic.ca) or Marcy (mantonio@uvic.ca). One-time registration for public Zoom meetings is now required to protect the safety and security of our online communities. To register, please could go to https://infoway-inforoute.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqc-qhrj0qHdbaTzlYUrMKFcobWoiIPELl Once registered, you will receive an updated meeting link and password that can be used to access upcoming session(s). Callers-in will require a password, and meetings will not begin until the host joins. The meeting URL will posted in the Events Calendar: https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/collaboration/wg/sex-gender In preparation for the session, the planning project folder (https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/sex-gender/sgwg-planning-project) contains the following documents: 'GSSO Action Plan' 'Consultation process' details the aim and timeline of our planning project. The 'Information Letter' details the consent process and we ask you to review it prior to participating in the consultation Thank-you and looking forward to our upcoming discussion, Marcy On behalf of the Sex and Gender CIHR Planning Project: Francis Lau, Professor and Lead Researcher Marcy Antonio, PhD Candidate and Research Coordinator

The HL7 Gender Harmony Project survey mentioned in this thread is now closed. Thank you for your participation.