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2026 Sexual and Reproductive Health among LGBTQ+ Communities in Australia
Thank you for your interest in taking part in a national survey exploring the sexual and reproductive health of LGBTQ+ communities. This survey focuses on the experiences of LGBTQ+ women, trans and gender diverse people, and their partners.
The information collected will help evaluate ACON's Word on the Sheets resource. Your responses will contribute to understanding how well the project is supporting the sexual and reproductive health needs of our communities.
This survey will take about 15 minutes to complete.
The Centre for Family Research and Evaluation
at Drummond Street Services is hosting and analysing the data collected through this survey. If you would like to know more about the evaluation or have any questions or concerns about the survey, please email:
rebecca.stewart@ds.org.au
.
What will the survey ask?
In this survey, we will use terms such as ‘sexual health’ and ‘reproductive health’. Below are definitions and examples for each term:
Sexual
health includes anything related to consent, relationships, sex, pleasure, STI symptoms and testing.
Reproductive health includes anything related to contraception, pregnancy, abortion, assisted reproduction, fertility preservation, hormones, menopause and pain.
Please note that some questions:
Ask
how you describe your gender, sexuality and other social and cultural characteristics. This is to help us understand which groups of people are represented among the survey participants.
Ask about your sexual and reproductive health needs, including how you access or do not access services, experiences in health settings and at appointments. We will not ask for any personal health information, and you can skip questions that you do not want to answer.
What else do I need to know before completing the survey?
Your answers will be anonymous - we will not know who you are when you respond. All responses will be grouped together in an evaluation report for ACON. Nothing written in these reports will identify individual people.
You can exit the survey at any time. You do not have to answer every question. Some questions will require an answer. If you do not want to answer, you can exit the survey.
If any of the survey questions raise anything difficult for you, please reach out to a trusted friend or service that you are connected to, or contact any of the services listed here (this information will also be provided at the end of the survey):
National:
1800 Respect
on 1800 737 732 (24 hours) for domestic, family and sexual violence counselling
QLife
on 1800 184 527 (3pm – midnight) for free and anonymous peer-support and referral run by LGBTIQA+SB people for LGBTIQA+SB people.
Lifeline
on 13 11 14 (24 hours) for crisis support and suicide prevention services.
True Relationships
(Clinics in each state and territory) for specialised reproductive and sexual health services.
State-specific:
Sexual Health Helpline
on 1800 198 205 for sexual health information and advice (WA only)
1800 4 Choice
/ 1800 424 642 for support with contraception and pregnancy options (WA only)
1800 My Options
/ 1800 696 784 for information about contraception, pregnancy options and sexual health (Victoria only)
Sexual Health Infolink
on 1800 451 624 for sexual health information and advice (NSW only)
Sexual health services and clinics in QLD
SHINE Sexual Health Line
on 1300 883 793 (SA only)
Sexual health and wellbeing services in NT
Canberra Sexual Health Centre (ACT only)
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1.
If you wish to proceed with the survey, please provide your consent by agreeing to the following statements:
(Required.)
I have read the information above and consent to my anonymous answers being used for the evaluation of the Word on the Sheets project
I am 18 years of age or older
I understand that I can print and save this information now. If you need support with this, please email
rebecca.stewart@ds.org.au
for a copy.
2.
This is the 2nd of three surveys that look at the usefulness and reach of the Word on the Sheets website and resources.
Note that you did not need to complete the first survey to participate in this one.
If you have previously completed a survey or are interested in completing the 3rd and final survey (to be released in 2027), please check the relevant tick boxes below:
I participated in the previous survey titled "Sexual and Reproductive Health among LGBTQ+ Communities in Australia", between October 2025 and December 2025.
I give my consent to be contacted for 3rd survey for Word on the Sheets (Thank you for agreeing to be contacted. You will be invited to share your email at the end of the survey).
3.
If you wish to be contacted for the next survey in the series, please provide your email below. Emails will be kept separate from data to ensure anonymity.
4.
In order to gauge effectiveness of the Word on the Sheets campaign overtime, we require a de-identified code to assess changes in responses. If you wish to contribute, we invite you to create a code using the first two letters of your favourite colour, your birth month (01-12), and the first two letters of the suburb you grew up in (e.g. BL05PA). This is NOT mandatory to complete the survey. By providing said code, you are consenting to us using and reporting on your survey answers within group aggregated data.
If you choose to complete the 3rd survey in 2027 you will be invited to provide this code.
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