Writing Themselves In 4 : The health and Wellbeing of LGBTQA+ Young People In Australia : National Report

A.O. Hill, A. Lyons, J. Jones, I. McGowan, M. Carman, M. Parsons

This report describes findings from Writing Themselves In 4: a national survey of health and wellbeing among LGBTQA+ young people in Australia. Writing Themselves In 4 involved an online survey of people living in Australia aged between 14 and 21 years who identified as LGBTIQA+. The survey was open for completion between 2 September and 28 October 2019. Summaries of the data broken down at the state and territory level are available for Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria. Chapters 3 to 14 of this report provide an overview of key findings across the entire sample of Writing Themselves In 4 and, where possible, a breakdown of responses by gender and sexuality. In Chapters 16 to 18, we replicate some of the analyses reported in earlier chapters, to show how responses to certain questions relating to health and wellbeing vary for participants who reported disability, those living in different parts of their state (i.e. metropolitan, rural, and remote locations) and those from ethnically diverse backgrounds. In addition to presenting results to questions that were asked only of trans and gender diverse young people, Chapter 15 also provides a similar breakdown of findings according to whether non-binary participants had been assigned male or female sex at birth.