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

英国女性变男性跨性别者获得医疗保健的机会：治疗地域研究

• 批准号: 2462483
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2462483
• 关键词: Access; Healthcare; Female; Male; Transgender

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.

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，这推动了我的申请。通过关注跨性别者的地理分布，我希望详细描述这个重要的少数群体每天面临的挑战，并填补学术文献中的空白，以阐明跨性别者的真实和生活经历。这项研究不仅服务于地理学领域，还将通过调查从国家到人际层面的多层次结构中跨性别个体和地方之间的相互作用，与其他学科（例如社会学）重叠。通过“治疗地理”的概念，该项目将通过诊所的可用性、资金和私人医疗保健的提供来研究全国范围内获得医疗保健和治疗的情况如何变化。接受治疗过程中障碍的积累导致了私人医疗诊所的盛行，尽管这些导致了伦敦形成“转运中心”的地理惯性。服务提供的不平衡状况尚未得到系统的“映射”，这是我希望填补的文献中的一个重大空白。