Important information for Ottawa area trans women, trans men, non-binary trans people and other non-cis people undergoing HRT from Drs. Barwin and Douek:

Dr. Barwin will be retiring at the end of August, and his office will be closing. Unclear what will happen to patients, or to those seeing Dr. Douek. Dr. Myrth is not currently accepting new patients. Recommend you get updated bloodwork and get your own copies that you can give to your next doc.

I have no further details to offer; it's on the office voicemail that Dr. Barwin is retiring and closing the office.

Attention volunteers aged 25 and up:  The Ten Oaks Project is now accepting applications for ROC volunteers for Project Acorn 2014!

ROCs - Roots of Our Community - are volunteers aged 25+ who support the Youth Advisory Committee and program participants at Project Acorn, a radical community-building space that takes the shape of a four-day camp in July.

The deadline to apply is May 18.  All the details/instructions can be found here: http://www.tenoaksproject.org/what-we-do/project-acorn/become-a-roc.aspx

The Ten Oaks Project is going to be creating a workshop series about the experiences and identities of queerspawn/ queerlings /children and youth from LGBTQ+ families. There will be workshops for youth, LGBTQ+ parents, educators and service providers which we hope to begin offering in September 2014.

They are currently looking for Ottawa-based youth, aged 13-24, from LGBTQ+ families who would like to be on our Queerspawn Workshop Advisory Committee. This committee will create the workshops and design all the elements of this program!

The application deadline is Friday, May 23.  All the details are online: http://www.tenoaksproject.org/workshops.aspx