Table 3.
An overview of the themes about expertise in teaching about transgender healthcare.
| Theme | Summary quotes (pseudonym and role) |
|---|---|
| 1: Teaching staff’s feelings of lacking expertise to teach about transgender healthcare |
That’s how I’ve learnt everything about it, from the students actually (Brendan, teaching staff) I don’t feel educated enough and I’d feel a bit like a fraud if I was in there teaching about transgender issues (Isabel, teaching staff) I’m happy to learn about it and find out about it and that’s what we should probably do with the students as well (Addison, teaching staff) |
| 2: Teaching staff’s feelings of expertise on methods of teaching about healthcare |
we’re always trying to make sure that we’re encouraging our students to be inclusive (Jocelyn, teaching staff) I think that small group [teaching] really lends itself to those kind of issues (Grace, teaching staff) Like meeting children, old age people, or people with some sort of disability; normal people with different kinds of experience regarding health issues (Delia, teaching staff) |
| 3: Transgender community members’ expertise on transgender healthcare |
it’s really important for us to find out what it is about a marginalized community that is specific, like what their needs are specifically (Alex, transgender community member) quite often the trans person has read far more than the medical profession about what’s happening [in healthcare] (Ellen, transgender community member) clinical values, hormone levels are important to remember when you’re dealing in the clinical setting but [when providing care] you are this profession first (Mike, transgender community member) |
| 4: Transgender community members’ awareness of limits to teaching from personal experiences |
the range of trans people is really quite huge so you just can’t take one person and use them as a typical example coz there is no typical example (Ellen, transgender community member) I talked about my story coz that’s the only story I can really talk about (Lisa, transgender community member) I think you need to […] ask as many different trans people as possible their stories (Ellen, transgender community member) |