Participants needed for an investigation on the differences between gender
variant persons' satisfaction within specific gender identity clinics and
the wider health care service.

My name is Alice Warner and I am a student in the school of psychology at
the University of Leicester. I am currently looking for research
participants to fill out a brief questionnaire about their experiences of
health care as trans people. A good deal of research has focused on trans patient satisfaction, but very
little has been done on the various different types of trans people that
have been identified. A recent survey by the NHS was very thorough and
produced some marvellous results, but it was focused on a single clinical
setting and a single group of patients. I hope to take their model and
apply it to other groups and examine any differences that occur.
My fundamental aim is to find out whether a certain type of gender variant
person's satisfaction of service higher because they have easier access to
the specialised gender identity clinics? Is there a difference in patient
satisfaction between specialised gender identity clinics and the wider
health care service? If such a difference exists, which type of gender
variant person does it affect the most and what possible reasons there are
for this?
Participants should identify as any type of gender variant (trans,
transgender, transsexual etc.) and should have some experience of the
health care system as a trans person (e.g. seeing a GP or local
psychiatrist, or going to a GIC).
I hope the results will be able to inform future treatment practices and
the community at large.
To participate please follow this URL
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/226981/trans-treatment All responses are anonymous and everyone is encouraged to participate
regardless of location.

For a further information about the study or any background information,
please feel free to contact one of the researchers.

Alice Warner
alw26@le.ac.uk

You may also contact my advisor Dr. Robertson at nr6@leicester.ac.uk
http://www.trans-academics.org/user/alicewarner_0

My name is Muriel Vernon and I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I am currently looking for research participants for my dissertation fieldwork during the year of 2010, which I will be conducting at the Greenbaum Surgery Center in Scottsdale, Arizona and at Mount St. Rafael Hospital in Trinidad, Colorado. My dissertation research focuses on transsexual or transgender women who will be undergoing sex reassignment surgery (SRS/ vaginoplasty) next year under the care of Marci Bowers/Toby Meltzer, and I will be spending six months in each location. I am basically interested in talking to patients about their personal experiences of living with Gender Identity Disorder (GID), their expectations/ hopes/meanings invested in the surgery, what patients feel the surgery contributes to their identities, what patients feel SRS will contribute to the dissolution or lessening of GID or Gender Dysphoria, and what patients think SRS will contribute to changing negative societal attitudes toward transsexual/transgender individuals. The risks for the participants in the study are minimal and all information will be handled confidentially.
If you are going to Trinidad, Colorado between January and July 2010, or of you are going to Scottsdale, Arizona between July and December 2010, and if you are interested in participating in this study, please contact me at murielv1@hotmail.com or call me at 818-261-2831 for more information about the study. You may also contact my advisor Dr. Linda Garro at lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu. Thank you for your consideration.