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Jaimie F Veale is a Canadian-New Zealand psychology academic, and as of 2021 is a senior lecturer at the
University of Waikato The University of Waikato (), established in 1964, is a Public university, public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in nume ...
.


Academic career

Veale has a master's degree from
Massey University Massey University () is a Public university, public research university in New Zealand that provides internal and distance education. The university has campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington. Data from Universities New Zealand ...
, completed in 2005. After a 2011
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titled ''Biological and psychosocial correlates of gender-variant and gender-typical identities'' also at Massey University, Veale moved to the
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in
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for three years, before returning to New Zealand and the
University of Waikato The University of Waikato (), established in 1964, is a Public university, public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in nume ...
. In 2017, Veale was funded to research transgender health and "the first comprehensive research project into the health and wellbeing of trans and non-binary people in New Zealand". In 2019–2021, Veale and her work supported changes in the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill to make it easier for people to change the details on their birth certificates. In 2021, Veale gave a
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interview about the anti-trans backlash to weightlifter
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representing New Zealand at the
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, in which she described the response as an attempt to deny trans people their
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. A complaint was laid with the
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, but it was not upheld. Veale is researching the media coverage of Hubbard.


Selected works

* * * Veale, Jaimie, Elizabeth M. Saewyc, Hélène Frohard-Dourlent, Sarah Dobson, and Beth Clark. "Being safe, being me: Results of the Canadian trans youth health survey." (2015). * * Clark, Beth A., Jaimie F. Veale, Marria Townsend, Hélène Frohard-Dourlent, and Elizabeth Saewyc. "Non-binary youth: Access to gender-affirming primary health care." International Journal of Transgenderism 19, no. 2 (2018): 158–169. *


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* Living people Academic staff of the University of Waikato Year of birth missing (living people) Transgender academics Massey University alumni 21st-century New Zealand psychologists {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub