City: Bergen
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Contact Committee for Gender and Sexual Diversity
The purpose of establishing a dedicated Contact Committee for Gender and Sexual Diversity is to ensure that an intersectional perspective is promoted and integrated into the municipality’s plans, measures, and services. The current Commissioner for Diversity invites LGBTQ+ organizations in Bergen to regular meetings. Theme for the meetings may cover political issues of interest to…
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Training for employees in the health and care services
For a four-year period, Bergen municipality will arrange annual competence-enhancing seminars for employees in health and care services on topics related to gender and sexuality with an intersectional perspective. Current themes are gender incongruence, queer with functional variation, older queer, queer in ethnic minority context and in a religious context. Bergen municipality wants to have…
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Gender-neutral toilets and changing rooms
Bergen municipality works to ensure that the toilets and changing rooms in municipal buildings are, to the greatest extent possible, gender neutral. City profile: Bergen
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Competence center for gender and sexuality
Bergen municipality will increase expertise on gender and sexuality at the Health Centre for youth and students. Funding is provided to train two health nurses in the field of sexology. The health nurses can with this competence carry out exploratory interviews, guide and assess the need for help. Furthermore, an important part of the competence…
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New action plan for sexual gender diversity
Bergen1. New action plan for sexual gender diversityThe City of Bergen has approved the fourth plan forsexual and gender diversity. The first plan wasapproved by the city council in 2007 and the new planis for the period 2023-202 containing 22 measures.Important measures in the new plan will be:• The establishment of a consultary body forsexual…