TY - JOUR
T1 - Expanding and improving trans affirming care in Australia
T2 - experiences with healthcare professionals among transgender young people and their parents
AU - Bartholomaeus, Clare
AU - Riggs, Damien W.
AU - Sansfaçon, Annie Pullen
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Access to medical care is significant for many transgender young people and their families, which involves interactions with healthcare professionals. While a trans affirming model is used across Australian paediatric gender clinics, this does not automatically mean that all transgender young people and their parents experience the care they receive as affirming. This article considers the experiences and views of transgender young people (aged 11–17) and their parents in relation to healthcare professionals inside and outside of gender clinics in Australia. Ten qualitative interviews were conducted with parent–child dyads in two Australian states. Key themes relating to healthcare professionals were: differing levels of healthcare professional knowledge and affirmation, quality of service is dependent on individual healthcare professionals, and lack of connected services and referral pathways. The discussion explores specific issues arising from the findings that suggest implications for training for healthcare professionals so as to be better equipped to provide trans affirming clinical care.
AB - Access to medical care is significant for many transgender young people and their families, which involves interactions with healthcare professionals. While a trans affirming model is used across Australian paediatric gender clinics, this does not automatically mean that all transgender young people and their parents experience the care they receive as affirming. This article considers the experiences and views of transgender young people (aged 11–17) and their parents in relation to healthcare professionals inside and outside of gender clinics in Australia. Ten qualitative interviews were conducted with parent–child dyads in two Australian states. Key themes relating to healthcare professionals were: differing levels of healthcare professional knowledge and affirmation, quality of service is dependent on individual healthcare professionals, and lack of connected services and referral pathways. The discussion explores specific issues arising from the findings that suggest implications for training for healthcare professionals so as to be better equipped to provide trans affirming clinical care.
KW - Australia
KW - healthcare professionals
KW - medical care
KW - parents
KW - Transgender
KW - young people
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096091739&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/FT130100087
U2 - 10.1080/14461242.2020.1845223
DO - 10.1080/14461242.2020.1845223
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096091739
SN - 1446-1242
VL - 30
SP - 58
EP - 71
JO - Health Sociology Review
JF - Health Sociology Review
IS - 1
ER -