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

这个应用程序是由我的愿望，从事与地理是代表性不足的区域，并进行研究的主题与很少或没有可用的文献。通过集中在跨性别的地理，我想详细说明的挑战，这一重要的少数民族人口每天面临的基础上，并履行在学术文献，揭示了跨性别个人的真实的和生活经验的缺乏。这项研究将不仅服务于地理领域，但也将重叠到其他学科，如社会学，通过调查跨性别的个人和地方之间的相互作用在一个多层次的结构，从国家到人际层面。通过“治疗地理”的概念，该项目将研究如何通过诊所的可用性，资金和私人医疗保健的提供，在全国范围内获得医疗保健和治疗。在接受治疗的过程中，障碍的积累导致了私人医疗诊所的流行，尽管这些导致了地理惯性，在伦敦形成了一个“transshub”。服务提供的不均衡景观尚未系统地“绘制”，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.