Access to Healthcare for Female-to-Male Transgender Individuals in the UK: A Study of Treatment Geographies

这个申请是由我的愿望推动的，我希望参与一个代表性不足的地理领域，并对几乎没有可用文献的主题进行研究。通过关注跨性别地域，我希望详细描述这一重要的少数群体每天面临的挑战，并弥补学术文献中对跨性别个体真实和生活经历的缺失。这项研究不仅将服务于地理学领域，还将通过调查跨性别个体和地方之间的相互作用，在从国家到人际层面的多层次结构中，与社会学等其他学科重叠。通过“治疗地域”的概念，该项目将研究如何通过提供诊所、资金和提供私人保健在全国范围内获得不同的保健和治疗。在接受治疗的过程中，障碍的积累导致了私人保健诊所的盛行，尽管这些导致了地理惯性，在伦敦形成了一个“transhub”。服务提供的不平衡状况还没有被系统地“映射”出来，这是我希望填补的文献中的一个重大空白。

This application is fuelled by my desire to engage with an area of geography that is underrepresented and to conduct research on topics with little-to-no available literature. By concentrating on transgender geographies, I wish to detail the challenges that this significant minority population face on a daily basis and fulfil an absence in academic literature that sheds light on the real and lived experiences of transgender individuals. This research will not only serve the field of geography but will also overlap into other disciplines, such as sociology, by investigating the interactions between transgender individuals and places within a multi-level structure ranging from a national to an interpersonal level. Through the concept of 'treatment geographies' this project will examine how access to healthcare and treatment is varied nationally through the availability of clinics, funding and the provision of private healthcare. The accumulation of barriers in the process of receiving treatment has resulted in a prevalence of private healthcare clinics, although these have resulted in geographical inertia forming a 'transhub' in London. The uneven landscape of service provision has not been systematically 'mapped', and this is a significant gap in literature I hope to fulfil.