Press Release – Transgender Health Research Lab Today is an important step in naming the harm faced by trans and non-binary people, and other rainbow people, when their very sense of self is under attack, said Dr Jaimie Veale, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Director of the Transgender Health … “Today is an important step in naming the harm faced by trans and non-binary people, and other rainbow people, when their very sense of self is under attack”, said Dr Jaimie Veale, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Director of the Transgender Health Research Lab at the University of Waikato. “The Transgender Health Research Lab welcomes the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill’s explicit acknowledgements of the serious harm caused by conversion practices and the need to stop them, wherever they occur, and whoever is the perpetrator”, said Dr Veale.