Jaimie F Veale is a Canadian-New Zealand psychology academic, and as of 2021 is a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato.

Academic career

Veale has a master's degree from

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, 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 University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada for three years, before returning to New Zealand and the University of Waikato. 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

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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 human rights. A complaint was laid with the Broadcasting Standards Agency, but it was not upheld. Veale is researching the media coverage of Hubbard.

Selected works

* Veale, Jaimie F. "Edinburgh handedness inventory–short form: a revised version based on confirmatory factor analysis." Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition 19, no. 2 (2014): 164–177. * Veale, Jaimie F., Ryan J. Watson, Tracey Peter, and Elizabeth M. Saewyc. "Mental health disparities among Canadian transgender youth." Journal of Adolescent Health 60, no. 1 (2017): 44–49. * 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). * Watson, Ryan J., Jaimie F. Veale, and Elizabeth M. Saewyc. "Disordered eating behaviors among transgender youth: Probability profiles from risk and protective factors." International journal of eating disorders 50, no. 5 (2017): 515–522. * 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. * Veale, Jaimie F., Tracey Peter, Robb Travers, and Elizabeth M. Saewyc. "Enacted stigma, mental health, and protective factors among transgender youth in Canada." Transgender Health 2, no. 1 (2017): 207–216.

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