A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
About the Project
This project is interested in understanding young people's thoughts, feelings, and experiences seeking out and/or accessing medical interventions (puberty blockers and/or gender affirming hormones) from a gender service as minors (under 18) in Australia. Specifically, this research team is interested in exploring whether young people felt there were requirements or expectations they had to meet in order to access gender services. By exploring these experiences, we hope to understand how young adults feel clinical guidelines* informed and shaped their journeys within a gender service and how these guidelines might be improved.
By speaking with young adults about their first-hand experience, we hope to inform health policy and guidelines and offer patient-led recommendations.
*Clinical guidelines are professional guidelines that guide clinicians' decision making and outline criteria for diagnosis or accessing specific care/services.
We are looking for participants who:
- are 18-22 years old
- are comfortable undertaking an interview in English
- sought out and/or accessed gender services as minor in Australia