As a trans person, I recognise the urgent need for outdoor health environments that are inclusive, affirming, and responsive to the needs of trans and gender expansive individuals. While nature holds answers for healing, resilience, and connection, trans and gender expansive individuals often face barriers to accessing outdoor health programs, including discrimination, safety concerns, lack of inclusive facilities, and the invisibility of trans perspectives. Despite the well-documented benefits of nature-based interventions, there remains a gap in knowledge informing how outdoor health programs can better serve trans and gender expansive communities.

This workshop invites participants to engage in discussion using the bio-psycho-socio-cultural-eco framework (Adventure Works Australia, 2025) to examine barriers, facilitators, and benefits of inclusion for trans and gender expansive people in outdoor health programs. By centring trans and gender expansive experiences and recognising nature as teacher, we will explore how outdoor spaces can become sites of affirmation, resilience, and collective care. Everyone is welcome to engage in this discussion, inclusive of people who are cis, trans, gender expansive, and allies.