Transgender clinic offering ‘non-judgemental’ healthcare opens in Liverpool

Butterfly clinic is offering access to specialist sexual health support for transgender and non-binary people.
Nurse practitioner Hayley Holloway. Image: axess Nurse practitioner Hayley Holloway. Image: axess
Nurse practitioner Hayley Holloway. Image: axess

Transgender and non-binary people will be able to access specialist sexual health services in Liverpool.

Butterfly, a free, confidential sexual health clinic opened this month at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and The Arch sexual health clinic in Knowsley.

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The service had been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic but is now seeing two to three transgender and non-binary patients a week and is due to be rolled out across the Liverpool City Region.

The clinic was the idea of Sexual Health Nurse Practitioner and Adviser Hayley Holloway who decided to look into setting up a specialist clinic after seeing a transgender patient.

She said: “A transgender patient came to one of my clinics and afterwards I reflected on how we could have improved her patient journey.

“My boss told me to do some research and Butterfly has been two years in the making.

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“It will allow transgender and non-binary people better access to healthcare and screening in a comfortable, non-judgemental environment.

“One patient has already said the service has changed her life and it has helped with her transition as well.”

What do patients think?

One patient of Butterfly said: “I no longer feel embarrassed to discuss my sexual health needs and the staff are all reassuring, non-judgmental and friendly.

“The efforts made by the Butterfly clinic are very much appreciated by the trans community and, for myself, have been life-changing.”

Butterfly is part of Axess Sexual Health which runs clinics across the Liverpool City Region. The clinic is appointment only.

For appointment information and opening times visit the axess website.

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