Country: Norway
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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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Enhanced protection against discrimination and increased inclusion of people who do not conform with gender and sexuality norms
Inclusion and protection against discrimination will enhance security for minorities who do not conform with gender and sexuality norms and who are at risk of being marginalised. This includes advisory health services, and measures to combat discrimination, negative social control and hate crime. This focus area targets efforts within municipal agencies and the broader community…
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Training and enhanced competence in addressing gender and sexual diversity in the municipality’s services and agencies.
Focus area 1 encompasses training for municipal employees, integrating knowledge of intersectional discrimination, as well as gender and sexual diversity, into systematic quality improvement efforts and the municipality’s governing documents. The training will ensure equality in the municipality’s services, which will be tailored to accommodate individuals who do not conform with traditional gender and sexuality…
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Visibility and celebration of gender and sexual diversity in Oslo
Visibility and celebration of queer Oslo will raise awareness of gender and sexual diversity among the general public in Oslo. Many people in Oslo do not define themselves within the two-gender model. The City of Oslo will integrate more inclusive language into the municipality’s language profile and implement gender-neutral toilet signs in its signage programme.…
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Training and enhanced competence in addressing gender and sexual diversity in the municipality’s services and agencies.
This focus area encompasses training for municipal employees, integrating knowledge of intersectional discrimination, as well as gender and sexual diversity, into systematic quality improvement efforts and the municipality’s governing documents. The training will ensure equality in the municipality’s services, which will be tailored to accommodate individuals who do not conform with traditional gender and sexuality…
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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…