The Trans, Non-Binary & Gender-Diverse Adults PSP is led by a Steering Group, run by researchers at Lancaster University, and funded by Gendered Intelligence.
The Steering Group includes:
Adults aged 18+ who are accessing, have accessed or are seeking access to transition-related care.
Healthcare professionals who support people with gender incongruence/dysphoria.
An independent advisor from the James Lind Alliance supports the project. They make sure the work is open and fair. They also chair the Steering Group meetings and help guide the overall process.
You can find out more about everyone involved by clicking on the names below.
I am in my mid-thirties and began taking transfeminine HRT in early 2023. I have paused HRT for periods to better understand how I feel about the changes it works in me, and to undertake fertility preservation. I live in Wales. My job aims to support others in reducing the health inequalities of people with learning disabilities.
Alexa is a Belfast-based trans woman working in LGBTI+ policy and campaigns. She previously managed a trans-led community space and human rights organisation, following which she worked on the human rights impact of Brexit in Northern Ireland.
Chay Brown (he/him) is Director for Healthcare at TransActual. In this role he advocates for improvements to healthcare for trans people, provides consultancy to healthcare providers, delivers training to healthcare professionals, and oversees TransActual’s work on healthcare focussed resources and healthcare focussed research.
I am a trans woman who began transitioning at age 40, after experiencing gender incongruence since early childhood. I am an NHS consultant (working outside gender-affirming care) and a senior lecturer at a UK medical school. I have accessed GAC through both NHS and private pathways, and bring a combination of lived and non-expert professional experience to the Steering Group.
I am transgender man who transitioned via the GIC/NHS for HRT and accessed private healthcare for top-surgery. I have been a trans activist for the past decade through employment at the Belfast LGBT Centre & through organising a local Pride.
I’m a 37 year old gender non-conforming individual who was born with an intersex condition. Whilst I was assigned male at birth, I did not look like a typical male. I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to figure out what I was “supposed” to be. About 8 years ago, I decided that I wanted to be more feminine and was scared of masculinising with age, and began my transition by buying hormones for myself off internet grey market sites. I identified as a woman for 2 years and by the time I’d been officially diagnosed with gender dysphoria and been issued an NHS prescription, I felt that my understanding of my gender had taken myself out of one box and placed myself ino another. I eventually decided that I was comfortable being a man, but only a feminine man. My gender journey can be difficult for others to understand, but I feel like where I’m at right now is exactly the place I’ve been looking for all my life.
I am a multidisciplinary professional working in trans and gender diversity, training and consultancy and life coaching for various different members of people in the community and people supporting them. I have also worked with a very vulnerable members of the lgbtq plus community and homelessness for over a decade and have various experience working across the sector for transgender diverse communities.
Ryan is the Lived Experience Coordinator at Scottish Trans, the trans-specific project of the Equality Network. The Equality Network is an LGBTI equality and human rights charity. Ryan’s role focuses on engaging with trans and non-binary people and ensuring that their voices are heard and that they can directly influence decisions on improvements to trans healthcare in Scotland.
I am a peer support worker with Umbrella Cymru, working closely with the Welsh Gender Service and their patients. I have a background in clinical psychology and have experience conducting research within this field.
A transgender person and harm reduction advocate who is most known for her extensive writing on endocrinology and pharmacology, but has also worked as an advisor for a variety of well-known groups around issues of trans health, substance use, and bodily autonomy.
Alison is a Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology. Dual trained in gender identity medicine, she leads the UK Cancer and Transition Service (UCATS). Her research centres on reducing cancer care inequalities for transgender people. Since October 2023, she has been President of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists.
Dr Charlie Whiteley is a senior counselling psychologist, working at Sussex Gender Service and previously working at the London Gender Identity Clinic. Charlie also lectures at City St George’s University, on the doctoral programme. She lectures in queer theory and supervisors doctoral research projects. Charlie has a particular interest in compassion focused, internal family systems and systemic therapeutic approaches.
Grace Gee is an Advanced Speech and Language Therapist working in NHS gender services and an NIHR pre-doctoral fellow. She specialises in voice and communication care for trans and non-binary people and her research focuses on waiting-list experiences, digital support, and co-produced, inclusive models of care.
Dr Kamilla Kamaruddin is a GP and Clinical Lead at the East of England Gender Service. She is a gender specialist, educator, and advocate working to reduce health inequalities, advance inclusive policy, and improve evidence-based, compassionate healthcare for transgender and gender-diverse people.
Born in Birmingham, I attended Medical School at Leeds University and completed my psychiatric training in Merseyside, before moving to the North-East of England in 2000. Here, I worked as an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist, becoming a Gender Specialist with the Northern Region Gender Dysphoria service in 2016. Throughout my career, I have held a firm belief that medicine and healthcare has a crucial part to play in social inclusion and social justice, and this is exemplified in gender identity work. I am a Council Member of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists (BAGIS) and I am active within the British Medical Association (BMA).
Paul Carruthers is the manager and nurse consultant at Gender Plus. Gender Plus is an independent trans healthcare service with a CQC rating of outstanding. Paul has over 10 years experience working within trans healthcare.
Peter is a consultant endocrinologist based in Harrogate. He has 20 years experience working in gender endocrinology as lead for the hormone clinic in the Leeds Gender Identity Service, has lectured widely on hormone treatment for individuals with gender incongruence and has mentored several health care professionals to become hormone prescribers.
I am trans feminine and have always lobbied for trans rights. I am a fully qualified electrologist. I started my own business with the goal to help those in my community access safe affordable hair removal.
Siaron West is a GP in Caerphilly, South Wales and has been providing gender-affirming care to her patients since 2010 and to other practices in Caerphilly borough since 2024. She has held safeguarding roles both within her practice and at a local level within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
Patient Pathway Coordinator with experience working with patients in gender care settings. I also have lived experience as an immigrant trans man. I have a strong interest in trans healthcare research.
Caroline is the James Lind Alliance (JLA) Adviser for this PSP. Her role is to chair the Steering Group and provide guidance to them and the project team in the implementation of the JLA priority setting methodology and she will chair the final workshop. Caroline is an independent consultant who supports strategic change initiatives and facilitates people engagement activities. She acted as the Adviser for the recent JLA LGBTQIA+ Perinatal Care PSP.
Dr Lisa Ashmore (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Lancaster University. Her work uses social scientific approaches to examine how people experience health and care services, informed by her background as a therapeutic radiographer. She has a particular interest in collaboration with patients, practitioners and organisations, and in including perspectives that are often under-represented in research and service design.
Her research draws on sociology, Science and Technology Studies and health services research. Her recent work has focused on experiences of gynaecological radiotherapy and consent, and on how health care is shaped within complex systems.
Lilly-Emma (she/they) is a researcher and PhD student at Lancaster University Medical School, and Director at Trans+ Health Research UK CIC. Her work explores healthcare inequities using a transformative paradigm, with a focus on transition-related care for trans, non-binary and gender diverse communities. She recently led a study exploring experiences of transition-related care in England, engaging 422 trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse adults. Her interest in transition-related care stems from her lived experiences as a trans woman.
Lilly-Emma is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists (BAGIS).
Gendered Intelligence is a trans-led and trans-involving charity that works to increase understandings of gender diversity and improve the lives of trans people. We deliver a range of services, projects and activities to trans, non-binary, and gender exploring people, as well as a range of educational, training and consultancy services to organisations and individuals who are working to better their inclusive practices. We also engage with public policy and seek to influence legislation, the media, policy and research at a national level.
The British Association of Gender Identity Specialists are an association and network of healthcare professionals, from a wide range of disciplines, committed to promoting excellence in clinical practice, clinical research, training and education in the field of healthcare for trans and non-binary people. The Association encourages and fosters the highest standards of practice amongst its members, based upon the best available evidence, and advocates the adoption of similar standards amongst all health professionals in the British Isles.
GIRES is a UK-wide trans led charity dedicated to improving the lives of trans, gender-diverse and non-binary people of all ages.
We support organisations, charities, trainers and individuals to embed meaningful trans and gender-diverse inclusion by providing accessible, evidence-based research and high-quality resources.
Our work strengthens existing services and systems to ensure trans inclusion across all areas of life, including healthcare, employment, and education.
In addition, GIRES delivers specialist training, e-learning, and consultancy to public and private sector organisations. Our training supports both trans and gender-diverse individuals and the professionals who work with and care for them, ensuring knowledge is current, consistent, and grounded in best practice.
OUTpatients is the UK’s only LGBTIQ+ cancer charity. We’re proudly led by and for LGBTIQ+ people affected by cancer, and work hard to support and advocate for our community. Our goal is to help patients, survivors, partners and caregivers feel welcome and supported in cancer services. Through peer support, education, and bespoke resource production, it is our mission to transform cancer care into a more inclusive environment for everyone.
Scottish Trans is part of the Equality Network, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex equality and human rights charity. Scottish Trans works to improve the equality, human right and inclusion of trans people across Scotland.
TransActual UK are a national advocacy and education organisation focussed specifically on working for trans adults in the UK. Our work is broad ranging, but we have a particular focus on healthcare and trans people’s legal protections. We seek to raise trans people’s voices and raise awareness of trans people’s lived experiences.
