As the private lives of trans people are dragged into public debate, it’s time for facts | Liz Duck-Chong, Teddy Cook, Shoshana Roseberg, Mish Pony and Jeremy Wiggins

It feels good to have more data than ever behind us while fighting damaging narratives at work, in courtrooms and parliaments around Australia

Sex and romance are significant aspects of most people’s lives, from the ways we live, love others, the media we buy and consume, our dreams and fantasies, and to how we think about and engage with our sexual health. If you know, love or are intimate with trans and gender-diverse people, it’s no secret that we have sexual and romantic lives just like anyone, and yet until now very little research has been done about how these are expressed and experienced.

In response to this lack of research, the 2018 Australian Trans and Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey was initiated late last year, in an online survey hosted by the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales and conducted in collaboration with community advocates, clinicians and researchers from around Australia.

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