From Blues to Rainbows: The mental health and well-being of gender diverse and transgender young people in Australia, is the culmination of many months of engagement with gender diverse and transgender young people across Australia. Historically, transgender and gender diverse…
The high rates of suicide-related behaviour among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, combined with similar evidence relating to LGBTQIA+ people, suggest that there is a need to investigate the compound risk of suicide-related behaviour among people who are both…
Trans Pathways is a mixed-methods, crosssectional online study conducted from February 2016 to August 2016. This research explored the current state of mental health of trans young people living in Australia and the barriers they face in accessing mental health…
Private Lives 3 (PL3) is the third iteration of the Private Lives surveys, with the first conducted in 2005 and the second in 2011. PL3 is Australia’s largest national survey of the health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,…
The acronym LGBTIQA+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (or trans), intersex, queer/questioning, asexual, HIV positive and other terms (such as non-binary and pansexual) that people use to describe or express their sex, gender, sexuality, and relationships. Intersex people are…
In 1998, the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University conducted Writing Themselves In, the first ever national survey of same-sex attracted young people in Australia. The research highlighted the marginalisation of same-sex attracted…
LGBTQI+ Disabled People who use self-directed support reported many positives from having more choice, control and power. Concerns included: coming out to social care staff jeopardising support; difficulties in recruiting and retaining good PAs; difficulties in securing support for ‘social…
This report documents the effects of systemic discrimination on the health and wellbeing of LGBTI people with disability. It is divided into two key sections (Sections 4 and 5). The first reviews the national and international research and policy literatures…
This report presents findings from secondary analyses regarding respondents who reported having a disability or a long-term health condition from two national surveys. These surveys were: Writing Themselves In 4, which focused on the health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay,…
In this short research report I will highlight the experiences of young people who are disabled and LGBT+ in relation to Relationship and Sex Education (RSE). The participants did not focus upon ways to revise the national curriculum (see Toft…
