Introduction

This research aims to better understand how gender-affirming care may influence forensic body fluid testing, to help ensure sexual assault investigation processes are fair for gender-diverse and intersex people.

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We want you to feel supported to participate in this research, but we recognise that some of these questions may cause distress / mamae. You may prefer different terms (e.g. to describe genitalia or other body parts) to those we have used in this questionnaire. If answering this questionnaire creates discomfort for you, please refer to the list of organisations that you can talk to in your Participant Information Sheet. You can also raise your concerns with any of the researchers (contact information listed in the Participant Information Sheet). If you would like to contact the intermediary researchers (when you see this underline in the survey, you can hover your mouse over the text for more information), please email forensic.gender@phfscience.nz.
 
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