Kate Nambiar

Kate Nambiar is an English doctor who specialises in sexual health and gender identity medicine. In 2012 she was one of the co-founders of Clinic T in Brighton, England. She was previously the medical director of the Terrence Higgins Trust.

Early life and education Nambiar is of Chinese-Indian heritage. She studied Medicine & Physiological Sciences at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1996. and found that her peers were unsupportive. Nambiar has spoken openly about how she struggled to find a community and acceptance during the 1990s. Nambiar began working in the NHS in 1999 and completed her PhD in immunology and bioinformatics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. In 2003, she specialised in HIV and sexual health.

Medical career

Clinic T In 2012, Nambiar co-founded Clinic T, a monthly sexual health clinic, geared towards transgender people in Brighton. It was established in partnership with the Terrence Higgins Trust, and Brighton LGBT Health Inclusion Project, as part of a local health study. In 2016 she was part of a team that shared the findings of a satisfaction survey that Clinic T had given to patients. The evaluation found that patients were largely happy with their care, and that the clinic helped meet the broader health needs of transgender patients.

Reflecting on the experience, Nambiar admitted she previously had "internalised feelings of transphobia" around her gender identity Her work continued at Clinic T during this time, with Nambiar splitting her hours across the two services. and has previously served as the chair of the BASHH's (British Association for Sexual Health and HIV) Gender and Sexual Minorities Specialist Interest Group. She was also part of a team at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals that published guidance around gender inclusive language within perinatal care in 2021.

In 2022, she moved to Cardiff, and now works as a gender clinician and endocrinology specialist at the Welsh Gender Service. In December 2022, she joined the Working Group on Banning Conversion Practices, set up by the Welsh Government following the publication of the LGBTQ+ Action Plan for Wales.

Nambiar was listed as "One to watch" on Wales Online's 2022 Pinc List of most influential LGBT+ people in Wales. She went on to make the full list in 2023 and 2024. The EastEnders team worked with Nambiar and the Terrence Higgins Trust in 2023, to produce a storyline around one of the show's established characters being diagnosed with HIV. The Terrence Higgins Trust experienced a 75% increase in website traffic in the month after the storyline began. In February 2025, Nambiar was listed on Attitude magazine's 101 STEM list, dedicated to influential LGBTQ+ people working within STEM.