Jaimie F Veale is a Canadian-New Zealand psychology academic, and as of 2021 is a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato.^[1]

Veale has a master's degree from Massey University, completed in 2005.^[2] After a 2011 PhD titled Biological and psychosocial correlates of gender-variant and gender-typical identities also at Massey University,^[3] Veale moved to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada for three years, before returning to New Zealand and the University of Waikato.^[1]

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".^[4][5][6]

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.^[7][8][9]

In 2021, Veale gave a Radio New Zealand interview about the anti-trans backlash to weightlifter Laurel Hubbard representing New Zealand at the 2020 Olympics, in which she described the response as an attempt to deny trans people their human rights.^[10] A complaint was laid with the Broadcasting Standards Agency, but it was not upheld.^[11] Veale is researching the media coverage of Hubbard.^[12]

• 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.